ATKINSON, Robert.
Island going. To the remoter isles, chiefly uninhabited, off the north-west corner of Scotland. London, Collins, 1949.
8vo, pp. 384; with frontispiece and 26 double-sided photographic plates, several maps within text and to endpapers; very good in original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt (light wear to extremities), with original illustrated dust jacket (a few small losses to edges and tears to folds, small repairs to verso).
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Island going. To the remoter isles, chiefly uninhabited, off the north-west corner of Scotland.
First edition, complete with dust jacket. ‘In July 1935, Robert Atkinson and John Ainslie set out on an ornithological search for the rare Leach’s Fork-tailed Petrel. Their quest was to last for twelve years and took them from their Oxford base to many of the remote and often deserted islands off the north-west coast of Scotland. Island Going is the account of their adventure. Not only is it packed with marvellous descriptions of the wildlife and landscapes of the islands as well as the journey itself, it also paints a vivid portrait of the way of life of the islanders and their history and traditions’ (2019 reprint).