Mateship with Birds

'Mateship with Birds ... was the bible for birdwatchers before we became birders ... [it] has been out of print for too long and Scribe is to be congratulated for producing this new edition ... If you take the time to live with this classic bird book, it will enrich your life.' -- Robert Adamson * Weekend Australian * 'A must-read book for all Australians, all bird lovers, and all who enjoy luxurious prose and sumptuous storytelling.' * The Guardian * 'To look to the future we must look to the past, but ... Mateship with Birds tells us humans do not necessarily learn from experience when it comes to wildlife ... Chisholm was a wonderful writer, combining the journalist's grasp of detail with a flourish of the poetic' -- Don Knowler * Mercury * '[H]is final passage - an epilogue to the fate of the magnificent paradise parrot - was as timely a reminder then as it is now, that we can never take the extraordinary avian heritage we have in this country for granted.' -- Heather Catchpole * Cosmos * 'The book's subject and chief lesson is the author's own apparently boundless enthusiasm, a passion that aims by mesmerical music and poetic suggestion to beguile readers from their city enclaves toward the promised arcadia of up-country open spaces. It is primarily because of this wonder of music and poetry that Mateship with Birds is now being republished. It is a worthy choice ... Chisholm's lyricising imagination is fatigueless throughout ... without doubt a book deserving its place in the new catalogue of revived Australian classics.' -- Andrew Fuhrmann * Australian Book Review *