Charles Broley: An Extraordinary Naturalist; Reflections on a Rideau Lake ** SIGNED **

An offering of two titles linked by geography . 1) Charles Broley: An extraordinary naturalist.Prologue. Foreword by author. Acknowledgements. Six chapters: 1. Beginnings; 2. Delta, Ruby, A Summer Cabin, and a Slowly Growing Interest in Wildlife; 3. Winnipeg, A New Wife, A New Life; 4. Ornithological Wanderings and a Daughter [ Jeanne]; 5. Retirement and Bald Eagles; 6. DDT, Habitat Changes and Declining Eagles, Broley Crisscrosses the Continent Lecturing - Slowly Public Perceptions of Birds of Prey Change and the Protection Movement Swells. 54 pp. plus: Epilogue, Selections from the Poetry of Myrtle Jeanne Broley, Biography of Works by Charles Broley with a Few Titles by His Wife, Myrtle, His Daughter, Jeanne and Others, References. 2) Reflections on a Rideau Lake. A biography of Lower Beverley Lake, " clawed out when the Wisconsin Glacier retreated ten to eleven thousand years ago," (p. 1) Author intertwines the story of the lake and her own. Illustrated with the author's paintings and contributed paintings and photographs by presumably ' lake people '. 172 pp. plus Acknowledgments. Rear panel is a coloured topographical map of the area of the lake. FlatSIGNED by the author in black ink. Many connections between the two books. Also several photographs by bookseller. Bookseller's Inventory # 160665.…