Etta Lemon
The Woman Who Saved the Birds
$38.34
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
17 May 2022
Summary
‘A great story of pioneering conservation.’ - Kate Humble
A heroine for our times, Etta Lemon campaigned for fifty years against the worldwide slaughter of wild birds for extravagantly feathered hats. As a young Victorian woman, Etta wrote militant letters to church-going ladies wearing feathered hats. As the pugnacious Secretary of the RSPB, she made ornithologists quake in their boots. Etta Lemon ran the long eco-campaign against the feather trade with single-minded tenacity, triump…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780711263383 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0711263388 |
| Author: | Tessa Boase |
| Publisher: | Quarto Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Aurum |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 17 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘Boase has done a superb job of linking her personalities, and painting vivid pictures of their life struggles and fighting techniques. This book is an unputdownable account of a forgotten campaign, and of a group of women who have been hidden from history for too long.’
* Women’s History Review *
‘A fascinating book…packed with interesting facts. A great read for all people’ * Birdwatching Magazine *
Tessa Boase
Tessa Boase read English at Oxford, and has worked as a scriptwriter, a voiceover artist and an editor at The Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. As a freelance journalist she has contributed to a wide variety of publications. Her first book, The Housekeeper’s Tale, was published by Aurum in 2014. She is married with children and lives between St Leonards on Sea, and Lazio, Italy.
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