The Practical Islander - R. M. Lockley in his Own Words

by R.M. Lockley, Jen Llywelyn

168 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 2010

About the author

Ronald Mathias Lockley, known in his published works as R. M. Lockley, was a Welsh ornithologist and naturalist. He wrote over fifty books on natural history.

Read more about him from this BBC profile:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/entr...

Reviews

[Ruth Brumby · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's not great writing and this collection from other books isn't particularly well-structured, but it is very interesting to read an evocation of a past time and to reflect on changes in farming, wildlife, social relationships, national organisation, the place of war in our economic policy - all of these have changed so much. Changes for the better mixed with changes for the worse and caused by all sorts of things - war, politics, human nature and sometimes odd specific details of place, time and culture. He tried to find a way through the issues of his times and we need to find a way ahead now! I most enjoyed reading about a particular area, which I have visited - sense of locality is another interesting area of change - and his knowledge of birds and his attempts to make a farm work.