Matthiessen, Peter, — The Wind Birds.

NY, Viking Studio Books, (1973). 1st ed thus. VG in VG DJ. The restlessness of the shorebirds, their kinship with the distance and swift seasons, the wistful signal of their voices. down the long coastlines of the world make them the most affecting of wild creatures. An excessively revised version of a text originally published in 1967 as part of an illustrated book in larger format entitled "The Shorebirds of North America".