Bird Man's River by Eric Ennion

Eric Ennion wrote Bird Man's River in the late 1930's but his hopes of finding a publisher were dashed by the outbreak of war. The very high cost of colour reproduction was also a factor in thwarting publication – his bird-artist contemporary, Charles Tunnicliffe, abandoned Shorelands Winter Diary in the 1950's because Collins were only prepared to illustrate it in line and halftone. In Bird Man's River, Eric Ennion chronicles his own pre-war birdwatching adventures: in Burwell Fen in Cambridgeshire, in Breckland, on the Norfolk Broads and the Norfolk and Suffolk coast, in Scotland and Wales, and in Holland in 1930 and Iceland in 1936 - a lyrical account of birds and wild places experienced in a golden age. The book reproduces all the illustrations Eric Ennion prepared specially for Bird Man's River plus a selection of his exhibition watercolours and other work from the period.

Introduction by Bob Walthew.

160 pages (300 x 240 mm), 80 colour illustrations, 8 line drawings.

ISBN 978-0-9570465-0-4

£35

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Contents

Introduction
Author's Preface

Mountain Waters
The River Rises
Iceland Ducks and Highland Waders
The Water That Wasn't There
In the Shadow of Ingolfsjall
Lowland Waters
Ponds, Puddles and Ditches
A Breckland River
The ‘Haunt of Coot and Hern’
The Seven-foot Forest of Reeds
Cambridge Fens and Texel Polders
Tidal Waters
Take Cover!
Estuary Wanderlust
Heaven on Earth
Saltmarsh and Shingle Fan
Beyond the Sea Wall
Within Sound of the Surf
Tern Island [based on Scolt Head]
Winter Saltings

Glossary and Editor's Notes
Acknowledgements