tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31546110748099656412024-02-21T04:12:04.127-08:00PoyserblogJim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939886912284100584noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3154611074809965641.post-83323606351235777642012-12-07T09:17:00.001-08:002012-12-07T09:17:51.259-08:00Digital sale!<br />
Greetings,<br />
<br />
Announcing a MAJOR sale on ebooks!<br />
<br />
From January, ALL of our Poyser monographs will be slashed in price to £19.99! For one month only.<br />
<br />
The perfect post-Christmas present!<br />
<br />
More news soon ...<br />
<br />
JimJim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939886912284100584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3154611074809965641.post-43962780956796312282012-10-30T03:54:00.002-07:002012-10-30T03:54:48.458-07:00The Snowy Owl<br />
Just a head's up - I received advance copies of our latest Poyser monograph this morning, The Snowy Owl by Richard Sale and Eugene Potapov. Very nice.<br />
<br />
Will be on sale in January - the perfect post-Christmas treat.<br />
<br />
Jim<br />
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<br />Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939886912284100584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3154611074809965641.post-10849104049097565042012-10-23T05:00:00.002-07:002012-10-23T05:00:45.883-07:00Titles coming soon<br />
Just a quick note some of the new titles I've signed up recently for the Poyser list.<br />
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<i>Fowling, Feasting and Feathers</i>:<i> A History of the Exploitation of Wild Birds</i> by <b>Michael Shrubb</b> <br />
The way wild birds have been exploited over the centuries forms the focus of this book. It looks at the use of birds as food, for feathers and skins, for eggs, as cage birds, as specimens and for hunting. Never before has a book brought the considerable amount of information on these topics in the academic literature together under one cover.<br /><br />
Introductory chapters on what was taken, when, why and its impact are followed by a number of sections looking in detail at important bird groups. Along with discussions of broader themes of exploitation, the book is packed with amazing facts. For example, we learn<br />
<br />• why Grey Herons were so important in medieval falconry<br />• why the Black Death was good news for bustards<br />• when tame plover stew was all the rage<br />• why Napoleon is to blame for the scarcity of Quail in Britain today<br />
<br />The book concludes with discussions of the cage bird and plumage trades, both now consigned to the annals of history, in Britain at any rate. As well as summarising and condensing the material into a readable and entertaining account, Shrubb goes back to original sources such as 14thcentury feast and market records (written in medieval Latin and therefore virtually inaccessible to other researchers, until now). This has allowed him to shed new and surprising light on the biogeography of a number of British birds.<br />
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I'm delighted to announce that this landmark title will be published in August 2013.<br />
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<i>The Barnacle Goose</i> by <b>Jeff Black</b>,
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story of one of Europe’s most celebrated long-term behavioral studies,
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<span lang="EN-US">Around the coasts and in the uplands of western Britain, one of our most majestic birds, the Chough, soars high above the cliffs on stiff black wings. These birds are often seen in small flocks, in which the birds constantly caw to each other. They are a magnificent sight, jet black with vivid red beaks and legs, and readily display their mastery of flight with displays of diving and swooping.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br />Known to ornithologists as the Red-billed Chough to distinguish it from its yellow-billed alpine cousin, this small crow occurs patchily across Europe into Western Asia, with isolated populations occurring as far south as Ethiopia. Part of the reason for its restricted distribution is its rather specific habitat requirements - rocky areas with close-cropped turf. These birds are declining in Britain, although a few pairs have recently recolonised the species’ former stronghold of Cornwall.</span></div>
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new to science. What’s more, these aren’t all just obscure brown birds on tiny
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<span lang="EN-US">This book documents all of these remarkable
discoveries made since 1960, from Barau’s Petrel onwards, covering around 250
species. It fills an important gap in the ornithological literature.<o:p></o:p> Written in an engaging style, this book
provides a rich reference to an era of adventure in ornithology. Each species
account discusses the story of the discovery, with photographs of the birds
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Hope you are looking forward to these as much as I am!<br />
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Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939886912284100584noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3154611074809965641.post-85935889990567272142011-10-05T02:20:00.000-07:002011-10-05T02:20:47.565-07:00A raft of new titlesA lot going on at Planet Poyser at the moment. For a start, we've three new titles out. All three are on sale now, in all good bookshops.<br />
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We've also got two titles currently undergoing the book production process. <i>The Snowy Owl</i> by Richard Sale was submitted last week, while <i>Extinct Birds</i> by Julian Hume – a genuinely canonical work – is currently being laid out. The Poyser list is in rude health!<br />
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I've got copies of the following titles looking for a good home. Some are pristine, some arent, some are Helm or Poyser, some are US editions of our books, all are collectable either way. <br />
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Wrens, dippers and thrashers<br />
The Hen Harrier<br />
Lapland a natural history<br />
Seabirds a natural history<br />
Crows and Jays<br />
Parrots<br />
Penguins (Poyser version)<br />
Pipits and Wagtails<br />
Starlings and mynas<br />
Shrikes and bush-shrikes<br />
Shorebirds<br />
Tits, nuthatches and treecreepers (US and UK versions)<br />
Sylvia warblers<br />
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If you'd like one drop me a line (jim dot martin at bloomsbury.com) with your address. Will need to be before 6pm Wednesday (Aug 3rd) this week though!<br />
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JIMJim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939886912284100584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3154611074809965641.post-35161731340239896682011-07-14T08:48:00.000-07:002011-07-14T08:50:20.185-07:00This week, a guest post from author and photographer <b>Clive Finlayson</b>, on an incredible encounter around a carcass in the Pyrenees …<br />
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It’s cold, actually it’s freezing – hard to believe that I am in the Iberian Peninsula and not somewhere in the Arctic. The temperature has plummeted to -11<sup>o</sup>C here at 1,600 metres in the Pyrenees. It’s January. Having to keep motionless in the dark really doesn’t help much, nor do the layers of thermal underwear, tights, pairs of socks … the sky outside is intense blue. That should, at least, ensure good conditions for photography. But will our target birds arrive today?<br />
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It’s now 10am and my wife and I have been in the hide for four hours. The sun is up but the temperature stays below freezing. Some silhouettes flit past. They are large. We focus the cameras on the deer carcass laid out barely 15 metres away, and we wait … out of nowhere a Griffon Vulture appears, as though by magic, but he’s been soaring cautiously above the bait – we just couldn’t see him with our limited view. A blink of the eye and there are now twenty vultures on the ground. They look around nervously, unsure. We avoid the temptation of clicking away. This would be the wrong moment. If they get spooked now, that will be it for today. Ten minutes later and a hundred or so Griffons approach the carcass. The first one goes for the intestines and starts to open up a gash. Others come in quickly. They start to scream and chatter at each other. The frenzy has started. Now we can start to shoot!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Griffons do their thing. </td></tr>
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Twenty minutes and hundreds of photos later the deer is a skeleton but our work has only just begun. Hanging around the edge of the frenzy, eight Black Vultures now come forward. They may be larger but they cannot compete with so many Griffons. But there is plenty for them to eat now; tough tendons, sinews and hide all get torn to shreds by their powerful beaks. Even now we haven’t got what we came for and we know we may not get it at all. Previous visits have ended in disappointment – they didn’t come down or they kept some distance. Today is different. We can see their distinctive shadows on the ground – large with a wedge-shaped tail …<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black Vultures - the Face of Death.</td></tr>
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Then, as unexpectedly as the first Griffon, our first Lammergeier is down – a first-year bird. This one stays on the edge of the commotion. It looks around nervously but then starts to walk towards the hide. A second bird puts it up as it lands. These birds seem to have the habit of landing close to each other in threatening fashion, often displacing each other. And the young ones seem more aggressive than the adults. Then the “wow” moment as the first adult lands. Its hard to believe how spectacular this bird is when it is just a few metres away.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lammergeier. </td></tr>
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Anvils? Who needs anvils. The Lammergeiers find their ideal bones, manipulate them with dexterity and swallow them whole! That’s just one lesson from watching birds close in. It’s only when the optimal bones are exhausted that the larger ones are carried away, held in one foot or with the beak.<br />
The scene I have described would have been a familiar one to our prehistoric ancestors. In fact, most of the Palearctic species around today predate the last two million years of glaciation and many are much older. Lammergeiers shared their Palaearctic range with the Neanderthals – the fit is almost too exact – and they must have come into close competition for bone marrow. No doubt the Neanderthals watched the vultures, who led them to sources of food.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An Egyptian Vulture joins the fun.</td></tr>
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I’m now back at home in Gibraltar, going through the palaeontological collections that I have been excavating here for twenty years. I bring out a set of bones from a Neanderthal occupation level. In my hand is a metatarsus of a Lammergeier and the box also contains Griffon, Egyptian and another large vulture (probably Black). The bones are 40,000 years old. I reflect on the history of the avifauna of the Palearctic. How did climate shape the fates of the birds? Can we combine the fossils with the living birds to give us a better understanding of the history and biogeography of Palaearctic birds? In <i>Avian Survivors</i> I hope to answer these questions and more …<br />
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<b>Clive is the author of <i>Avian Survivors: The History and Biogeography of Palearctic Birds</i> – on sale in August!</b><br />
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It is early morning and we are peering out of a weathered wooden hide at some 400m<sup>2</sup> of grassy slope – part of the largest Puffin colony in the North Sea, on the Isle of May National Nature Reserve in the entrance to the Firth of Forth, southeast Scotland. Some of the Puffins disturbed by our arrival at the hide are starting to land, while others that dived down into their burrows peer out before confidently<br />
re-emerging. They should be used to us, since this is the 40<sup>th</sup> year that we have been watching them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from the hide (Liz Mackley).</td></tr>
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The colony is a busy place today, even though by early May most pairs will probably be incubating their single egg, deep within their burrow. However, some birds are still squabbling over the ownership of burrows. Usually this involves little more than threats but there is the occasional scrap, with the protagonists tumbling down the slope, beaks locked, wings flailing. Other birds are tugging away at clumps of dead grass and taking bundles down burrows to line the nest chambers. Periodically, a rabbit hops through the area looking slightly intimidated by all the Puffin activity. During the winter it probably lived in a Puffin burrow but has been evicted now that the owner has returned, its soft nose being no match for a Puffin’s beak!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Puffin and rabbit (Eleanor Watt).</td></tr>
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As well as simply enjoying watching the goings-on in the Puffin colony, our visit to the hide on this and many other mornings has a more scientific purpose. We are trying to read all the colour-ring combinations of the birds that are present, and this is best done early in the season before the vegetation has grown. At the end of the 2010 season, 158 colour-ringed Puffins were known to be alive, and so far this season we have recorded 75% of these at least once. There is still plenty of time to tick off more birds but already it is clear that that survival rate over the 2010–11 winter has been good, since the resighting rate is approaching the normal 80–85%. Actual survival is always a little higher than the resighting rate, since we never see all the birds alive.<br />
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The Puffin that we would love to see, but sadly probably won’t, is ‘yellow-blue left, yellow-BTO ring right’, a male ringed as a breeding adult in 1974, when he would have been at least five years old. He last bred in burrow number 100 in 2005 and was present in the colony in 2006 and 2008, when he would have been at least 39 years old. Currently the longevity record for the Puffin is held by a bird that died in the Lofoten Islands in Norway when aged 41 years.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Colour-ringed Puffin on the Isle of May (Liz Mackley).</td></tr>
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On the Isle of May the Puffin is among the earliest of the seabirds to breed, with the first egg often laid in the first few days of April. The incubation period lasts 40–42 days, so we are now looking forward to one of the highlights of summer at a seabird colony, seeing the first Puffin carrying fish ashore.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Puffin carrying sandeels (Akinori Takahashi).</td></tr>
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<b>Mike and Sarah are the authors of our forthcoming Poyser monograph <i>The Puffin</i> – coming soon!</b><br />
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<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center;"></div>Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939886912284100584noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3154611074809965641.post-37434185372078023642011-04-04T08:29:00.000-07:002011-04-04T08:29:51.760-07:00Cape Clear ComingWith two blogs in a week I am breaking new ground, but what the heck: more news.<br />
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<i>Natural History of Cape Clear</i> - I have finally got this back and am about to send it to the printers. So it should be available in a month or so. This is of course one of the rarest (and by some margin the most expensive, second-hand) of all the Poysers. <i>Cape Clear</i> is the last to be revived as a POD, and its publication will mean the entire list is now back on sale).<br />
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I've given away quite a lot of the original Poyser covers now, so if you need one for your collection I'd urge you to contact me pretty much right away ...Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939886912284100584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3154611074809965641.post-29296274194342238982011-04-01T07:58:00.000-07:002011-04-01T08:00:12.249-07:00Lost a dust jacket?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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An unfortunate part of the POD production process is that original copies of the books had to be destroyed in order to produce digital scans. As you can imagine, this broke my heart.<br />
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But the upshot of this is that I now have a lot of original first edition dust jackets hanging around the office. As any book collector knows, jackets get ripped, or discoloured, or faded, so I thought I'd offer these up for any readers or collectors of the series who have lost a dust jacket and would like a replacement. Here, in no particular order, are the jackets I have to hand:<br />
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Ducks of Britain and Europe<br />
Rare birds in Britain and Ireland<br />
The Peregrine Falcon<br />
In Search of Sparrows<br />
Gulls an ID guide<br />
Wild Geese<br />
Birds in Ireland<br />
Cuckoos, cowbirds and other cheats<br />
Birds New to Britain and Ireland (1976 version)<br />
In search of Arctic Birds<br />
Birds by Night<br />
The Pinyon Jay<br />
The Dippers<br />
The Bee-eaters<br />
Red Data Birds in Britain<br />
Birds of the Strait of Gibraltar<br />
The Magpies<br />
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The Skuas<br />
Rare Birds Day by Day<br />
The Ancient Murrelet<br />
Birdwatcher's Year<br />
The Sparrowhawk<br />
The Ruff<br />
Birds and Forestry<br />
Birds and Berries<br />
The Pied Flycatcher<br />
Population Ecology of Raptors<br />
The Sparrows<br />
Herons of Europe<br />
Birds in Scotland<br />
Atlas of Wintering Birds<br />
Atlas of Breeding Birds<br />
Dictionary of Birds<br />
Man and Wildfowl<br />
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The Barn Owl<br />
Owls of Europe<br />
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Seabirds (revised edition)<br />
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If you would like any of these please drop me an email (which has recently changed: its now jim.martin at bloomsbury.com).Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939886912284100584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3154611074809965641.post-88123464105767360692011-02-22T04:37:00.000-08:002011-02-22T04:40:18.746-08:00An introduction to bird observatoriesThis week, a guest blog by <b>Peter Howlett</b> and <b>Mike Archer</b>, two of the editors of our most recent title, <i>Bird Observatories of Britain and Ireland</i>.<br />
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Since the first observatory was set up in 1933, on the island of Skokholm, bird observatories have played a central role in monitoring bird migration in Britain and Ireland, and have contributed much to our understanding of this phenomenon. The daily recording of migrants at observatories has revealed patterns and trends that can be put to real use in conservation. <br />
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The character of each observatory varies enormously, from the wild heather-topped terrain and huge sea cliffs of Fair Isle, the wind-swept marshy fields and dunes of Holme, and the calm tranquillity of Bardsey or the Calf of Man, to the beach-hut studded fields surrounding the observatory at Portland. Each has its own character, which will come to the fore during a stay; first appearances can be very deceptive and should, in some cases, be ignored! They are exciting spots where anything could happen – the next dramatic fall of migrants, or a major rarity lurking in the next bush.<br />
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The nature of each observatory also has an impact on the daily birding routine. Take Fair Isle, for instance. The island is unique amongst the observatories in that weather and landscape have reduced the importance of mist-nets for trapping migrants to almost the incidental. The bulk of trapping is done using fixed Heligoland traps. So instead of the frequent net rounds of the other observatories there are periodic drives of the traps. The remote location of Fair Isle also means that major arrivals tend to occur later in the day, so really early starts aren’t necessary – probably just as well with dawn at around 3.30–4.00am in May. At Dungeness the public nature of the trapping area means mist-nets can’t be left in place and need to be put up and taken down each day. The net round also involves a not-inconsiderable walk over shingle, a stark contrast to the five-minute walk around the permanently-sited nets in the gardens at Portland, Bardsey and the Calf of Man.<br />
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<tr style="color: black;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i>The new observatory building on Fair Isle, completed in 2010 (Deryk Shaw).</i></span></span> </td></tr>
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In spring and autumn, like-minded people are brought together in the unique ‘obs’ atmosphere, all hoping to witness one of the spectacular avian events for which the observatories are famed. What better time for an up-to-date and comprehensive second edition of the Poyser monograph on the bird observatories of the British Isles? This new book, with personal accounts by wardens, staff and volunteers, provides a detailed account of the history and work carried out at each of the 18 observatories.<br />
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We hope you may be enticed to visit one.<br />
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<i>Bird Observatories of Britain and Ireland</i> is available through our website. Click the cover below to find out more.<br />
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<span _mce_style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;">The accumulated whitewash identified the Gyrfalcon nest site. The little cave high in the cliff was an ideal spot, the whitewash suggesting that generations of Gyrs had used the well-hidden, well-guarded spot. This year’s female was barely visible as she sat incubating her clutch. Gyrs are among the earliest to breed of all Arctic species and this female had started before the sea ice at the base of the cliff had even begun to melt. </span><br />
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<span _mce_style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;">Access to the cave was difficult, a sloping ramp of rock offered a chance, but there was still an overhanging section below the cave. I climb rock faces as a hobby, but the week before, out on Hudson Bay, I had slipped in the boat from which I was photographing Beluga Whales, caught my hand on the gunwale, and fractured the thumb of my left hand, which was now the size of a football and hurt like hell. With my thumb splinted against my index finger with insulating tape – no medical facilities out in this remote place – I had continued to head north. But for a one-armed solo climber the cliff face was just too intimidating.</span> <span _mce_style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;">A high-angle scramble up frozen mud and scree, using the tripod as a makeshift ice-axe, allowed me to approach the spot where the male Gyr had an observation post. From this point he watched for any sign of predators on the prowl, in defence of his mate and her precious eggs. He saw me, and let out that awesome but beautiful <i>kaa-kaa-kaa</i> that raises the hairs on the back of my neck. He was magnificent, almost pure white, ghost-like as he flew silently through the cold air. </span><br />
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<span _mce_style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;">Over the next few days, perched in a cramped and fairly miserable hide, I got to know him well. He hunted regularly for his mate, feeding her so that she would not have to leave the eggs, which would have quickly chilled in the sub-zero temperatures. Then he would sit on his observation post, resting and peering out over the sea ice. Once he let out a sharp call, and exiting the hide I saw him dive and hit a Snow Goose which had strayed too close, killing it instantly but knocking the unfortunate bird into a stretch of open sea, from which he could not retrieve it. At other times he plucked his lunchtime grouse just a few feet away. Days passed and my hand hurt a little less. That made the long, long snow-scooter ride back to civilisation much less painful than the outward journey had been. It wasn’t the pain that stopped me now, but the need to look back for one more glimpse of Gyr. </span><br />
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<span _mce_style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;">Richard Sale is the author of <i>The Gyrfalcon </i></span><span _mce_style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;">(2005), recently reprinted and currently on sale. Click the cover below to get a copy!</span><br />
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This book had the misfortune of going out of stock just as the POD process was about to go underway, so it has been unavailable for some time. The good news, though, is that I've just sent it off to the printers. So <i>The Raven</i> will be back, soaring black and resplendent high above the crags of publishing, and available in print-on-demand format in around a month or so. <br />
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This leaves just a couple of Poysers left to complete the set, one of which (rather unfortunately) is the hardest to of all to get in its original guise, <i>The Natural History of Cape Clear</i>. Apologies if you're waiting to snap this one up, but it should be available by the end of February. <br />
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1) The back cover has a list of the entire Poyser series, in order. Most Poysers had an instantly obsolete list of titles, along with an out-of-date address, an old price, an incorrect barcode etc. So I decided to standardise this in a way that would show people exactly what's available in the series.<br />
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2) The copyright page (usually page 4) states that 'this is a print on demand copy, produced from an original edition'. The rest of the copyright page has also been updated.<br />
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3) There is no spine blocking on the book. This is the gold lettering that you get on the cloth of the spine, below the dust jacket, which you of course will continue to see on standard Poyser editions. <br />
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JimJim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939886912284100584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3154611074809965641.post-6014804196401431162010-11-26T07:26:00.000-08:002010-11-26T07:26:46.507-08:00Crazy for cuckoosAnd so the end of another week, and another raft of Poysers have been approved and released back into the wild. We're just going through the last of the titles that we're bringing back to life; these are larger-format titles, which are a bit trickier to produce, so I decided to leave these till last.<br />
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Included among these is perhaps my favourite book on the list, <i>Cuckoos, Cowbirds and other Cheats</i> by Nick Davies of the University of Cambridge. Its an amazing read and a great gateway into the world of behavioural ecology.<br />
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I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in avian breeding biology, as brood parasitism is rather more commonplace than you might realise. Wood Ducks, for example, are notorious. However, unlike cuckoos and cowbirds, which attack other species, some female Wood Ducks simply dump their eggs on other unsuspecting mothers, and let them go through the hard labour of chick-rearing. <br />
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I was struck by a passage in Nick's book about how the male Great Spotted Cuckoo lures magpies from their nest by flying past slowly and lazily. The magpies set off in furious pursuit, but while they are distracted the female cuckoo sneaks in to lay her eggs in the nest. I recently had the opportunity to commission artist Jan Wilczur to produce cover art for our forthcoming title, <i>Cuckoos of the World</i>, and was inspired by the tale of the crafty <span id="main" style="visibility: visible;"><span id="search" style="visibility: visible;"><i>Clamator</i>. </span></span>So here's a sneak preview of the almost-finished product, which will be gracing the cover of the book when it comes out next summer. <br />
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<div style="text-align: right;">JIM</div>Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939886912284100584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3154611074809965641.post-79547217448712289342010-10-19T08:54:00.000-07:002010-10-19T08:55:21.538-07:00Producing PoysersA few people have been asking how we brought all these Poysers back from the publishing backwater of out-of-print and into the light once more. So, in a peanutshell, here's a run through of the process. <br />
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These days, books are laid out using programmes such as Quark or Indesign, from which PDF files are produced that are sent for printing, but this has only been going on for 10 years or so. Before then things were a bit more primitive, and you don't have to go too much further back and designers would actually cut out illustrations, paste them onto a board with the text on it in blocks, then photograph the result and use that for printing. The upshot of this is that there are no PDFs or anything else besides the actual books for pretty much all of the Poysers. So in order to print brand new copies, the first stage was to get each title into a digital format.<br />
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Even we didn't have some of the books, due to their scarcity, so first I had to buy copies that were missing from a variety of second-hand sources. I then sent them off to our scanners. They scanned each page to the highest quality possible, and the digital files produced were then cleaned and sent off to the printers, Martins, who are based in Berwick Upon Tweed.<br />
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Each copy requires rather a lot of craftsmanship. Martins use the files to print the text, with the colour and any black and white sections printed seperately on gloss art paper. These are then inserted into the book at the right place, and the book is then glued and lined to form an unbound copy, known as a bookblock. <br />
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Next the endpapers are glued to the bookblock to give it strength, and the cloth of the jacket is cut to size. This is glued firmly to the boards that will make up the case. The bookblock is attached to the case, and the near-complete book is left in a clamp to dry. <br />
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The book is finished with the jacket, which has been printed separately, again from a digital file that matches a pristine copy of the original – the only difference is on the back cover, where I decided to include a standard list of the series. The originals had all sorts of things on the back, usually incomplete lists of the series up to the point of publication.<br />
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With this the book is ready to be sent out to the reader! I am secretly quite happy that we are using some quite old-fashioned book production techniques, allied with some that are rather more cutting edge in producing the <a href="http://poyserbooks.com/default.aspx?id=6">e-book versions</a> of each title. The Poyser list - a real blend of the old and the new.Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939886912284100584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3154611074809965641.post-80567584857095378872010-10-01T09:45:00.000-07:002010-10-05T03:08:34.333-07:00Website wondermentAnd now, the end is near ...<br />
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At last, we've 'gone live', which is IT geek-speak for 'the website is now visible to all and sundry'. Exciting.<br />
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So please have a look. Slightly embarrassingly, I got the website address wrong before. It is now <a href="http://poyserbooks.com/">http://poyserbooks.com</a>. The perfect portal to all things Poyser. <br />
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Trevor Poyser himself was kind enough to write a piece on the history of T&AD Poyser, with me adding a little on how things have progressed in recent years. Have a look <a href="http://poyserbooks.com/default.aspx?id=3">here</a>.<br />
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Now. to celebrate, I think a trip to see the juvenile White-winged Tern that's hanging around the Serpentine in Hyde Park might be in order ... what a bird for inner London.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">JIM</span>Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939886912284100584noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3154611074809965641.post-21456224291039964162010-09-28T10:54:00.000-07:002010-09-30T04:03:43.039-07:00Cover critiqueAnother busy day on planet Poyser. Besides the usual hurricane of frantic activity, I approved two more titles for the launch of the mighty Poyser backlist - Malcolm Ogilvie's <i>Ducks of Britain and Europe</i>, and Mike Brooke's <i>The Manx Shearwater</i>. Great books both, and <i>Ducks</i> has a particularly pleasing retro cover.<br />
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Poyser has never been afraid to push the boundaries when it comes to cover art. Check out this funky number from 1981's <i>Estuary Birds of Britain and Ireland</i>:<br />
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My fave is actually quite a bit more recent. Its one I commisioned in 2005 by Norfolk artist James MacCallum, and it still has the power to divide – loved and loathed in equal measure. But I think when its taken in tandem with the back, which matches it quite brilliantly, its one of the best all-round jackets in the series. What do you think?<br />
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Welcome to the World of Poyser!<br />
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The first of what I hope will be a fairly regular blog output from me. First, an introduction. My name is Jim, and I am Commissioning Editor for T & AD Poyser, a part of A&C Black Publishers. I thought I'd set up a blog to keep our readership from around the globe up to speed with all things Poyser.<br />
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And there's a lot to talk about.<br />
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Most of our backlist is long out of print, and we felt its about time this was rectifed. So from the end of September we'll be republishing the entire Poyser series, from 1973's <i>Breeding Birds of Britain and Ireland</i> onwards. Not only is the series highly collectible, with some titles changing hands nowadays for many hundreds of pounds; the books are extremely readable too, as I have been finding out as I've worked on them over the last year or so. My favourite so far is <i>The Hen Harrier </i>by Donald Watson - a classic in every respect, and a model of old-school natural history writing. <br />
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</div>Anyway, we're almost ready to go live. I've set up a new website, <a href="http://www.poyserbooks.co.uk/">poyserbooks.co.uk</a>, which will be released into the wild at the end of September. The site will act as a portal for people to buy the revived books, plus our standard editions and the forthcoming raft of ebooks. Today I took a few photos of the complete set here, which we're hoping to use to jolly up the website.<br />
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<b>Jim </b>Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939886912284100584noreply@blogger.com0