ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2010). 2010 1st edition. 4to (198 x 253mm). Colour photographs throughout, photograph end-papers. Black boards, gilt titles to spine. Slight shelf-wear but a new unread copy in dust-wrapper. Wildlife film makers, Philippa Forrester and Charlie Hamilton James "were invited by the BBC to make a programme about a year in the life of a river. We live beside this river and Charlie has photographed the kingfishers on it since he was a boy. .Charlie does the pictures and I do words and our children .follow us around asking funny questions." Chapters include: Halcyon days; Field craft; Hides and camouflage; Spring flowers; Kingfisher courtship; How to tracker an otter; Ten great places to see dippers; Plight of the water vole; Gathering wild garlic; Wild garlic pesto; Filming dippers underwater; River of death; Back garden ducks; Watercress; Watercress and feta omlette; Comforting watercress soup; The bee orchid; How to build an otter holt; Sticklebacks; Flood meadow survey; Fish wars; How to film a timelapse; A moth trapping sleepover; White-clawed crayfish; Building mink rafts; Making honey; Honey cookies; electrofishing and eels; Winter blackberries; Blackberry sorbet; Blackberry cobbler; Winter duck eggs; Dutch duck egg cakes. PREVIOUS PRICE £20.00.

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Title: HALCYON RIVER DIARIES. By Philippa Forrester and Charlie Hamilton James.
Publisher: Preface Publishing / BBC. London. 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1848092253
ISBN 13: 9781848092259
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: new

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A mayfly dances above honey-gold water in the evening sunshine; a kingfisher plunges into the sparkling depths to emerge with a struggling minnow in its orange beak; an otter slips silently through reeds; a family of moorhens paddles to its night-time lodgings. Here is the perfect, idyllic scene of a British river in summertime captured with love and astonishing skill by two of the leading wildlife filmmakers of our age. "Halcyon River Diaries" was commissioned following the phenomenally successful and award-winning "My Halcyon River" an intimate portrait of a secret world along a river in Britain, where otters hunt on the midnight current, mink lie in wait to ambush unwary victims and gleaming kingfishers pierce the water to spear their prey. Deemed as one of the most beautiful films at the Wildscreen festival, 2004, "My Halcyon River" was the winner of the Kodak Cinematography Award. "Halcyon River Diaries" is an evocative look at the wildlife of a typical English river, through the eyes of Philippa and Charlie's family, including their three young sons Fred, Gus and Arthur, who live beside it. Over the period of a year we experience life on the river following the same group of animal characters as they navigate the seasons, as well as seeing how Philippa and Charlie's passion for the river extends into every part of their family life.

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Philippa Forrester is known for her wealth of experience on live television, including Tomorrow's World presenting alongside Peter Snow for seven years. In addition she presented the phenomenally successful Robot Wars and many documentaries for the BBC's Natural History Unit and runs a production company 'Halcyon Media' with her husband Charlie Hamilton-James. Charlie Hamilton-James has been filming and photographing wildlife for over twenty years. He is particularly passionate about otters and kingfishers and has become a world ranked authority on both. Credits include: My Halcyon River - Natural World for BBC2; The Wild Wood'- Natural World BBC1; On the Trail of Tarka - Natural World BBC1; Wye - Voices from the Valley - Natural World BBC1; and Saving Grace - Animal Planet. Charlie has won numerous international awards for his work including Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 1990 and 1991, Best Cinematography - Wildscreen 2004, the Royal Television Society award for Cinematography 2007 and he was BAFTA-nominated in 2008.

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