DARNTON, Iris. Jungle Journeys in Ceylon … Foreword by Peter Scott. Lavenham, Suffolk, Galaxy Books [for the author], [1975].
4to. Original boards with illustrated dust-wrappers; pp. 271, highly illustrated after drawings and photographs in the text; apart from mild spotting to cloth and a few corners of the textblock with a little bump, a very good copy.
Privately printed first edition, presentation copy, signed, dated and inscribed by the author on front fly-leaf. Peter Scott, 'an old friend' of the author, writes in the preface. 'Iris Darnton knows the jungles and the "Buried Cities", the birds and the beasts, perhaps better than any other living person … Her descriptions of the scenery, the palm fringed beaches and the gentle picturesque people, are so vivid that one lives with them both on their many Jungle Journeys … she is an outstanding photographer and a talented artist'' (p. 9). Iris Darnton was member of the RGS and the British Ornithologists' Union.
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