PRE ISBN 8 plates in colour 27 b/w illustrations. R.M. Lockley, author and farmer, has written mostly of islands and birds and among his best known books are Island Days, I Know an Island and Shearwaters. In this book Mr Lockley has written of the islands lying off the coast of the British Isles. Many of these he knows from first-hand experience: he knows them as a serious ornithologist who has studied the seabirds and the spring and autumn migrations from many of the island Bird Stations, he has looked at them with the practical eye of a working farmer and he has sailed among them for pleasure. Islands, for most of us, have a fascination which never fades and the wonderful variety in the character and history, the legends and, above all, the beauty of our islands is most admirably described in this book. As Mr Lockley himself writes, “There is something about a small island that satisfies the heart of man.”