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A Bird Photographer’s Diary

by David Tipling, Reed New Holland, £16.99, 240 pages, hardback, ISBN 978-1925546125

In 1998, wildlife photographer David Tipling visited an emperor penguin colony in Antarctica. He describes landing on the blue-ice runway. It serves to highlight the lengths he has gone to over the years to bring us some of the finest bird photography around. It's beautifully illustrated and wonderfully written. ★★★★★

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