Tracks

63 pp. "Every morning a record of the night activities of the animal world is to be found printed all over the countryside in sand, or mud, or snow. The tracks and traces are of immense variety and the stories they tell are interpreted in this book... It teaches an awareness of small signs that can be easily overlooked. It shows how to identify animals, including birds, from their tracks, how to tell which animal was first on the scene, and whether they were stalking or playing, moving fast or slowly, and how to interpret, from the tracks that remain, many dramas of animal life that we would otherwise not know of. Most of the photographs were taken in England, but the animals included can be found all over northern Europe and closely related species in North America."--jacket