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'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.
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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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"The photography is brilliant and the text is about the best, most enjoyable and stimulating narrative I can recall for many years ... Read this and you will never look at a river in the same way again. Brilliant and a must-have book" -- Ray Collier * Highland News Group *
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- PublisherPreface Publishing
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1848092253
- ISBN 13 9781848092259
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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Book Description Condition: new. (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. Seller Inventory # 32236
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