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Following Edward Wilson into the Unknown, Dr Edward Wilson
English Polar Explorer, Ornithologist, Physician and artist died in Antarctica in 1912.
The discovery of a bird painting by Edward Wilson, who died
with Scott on their return from the South Pole, hit the headlines in 2017. The
bird was a dead treecreeper, an insignificant inhabitant of European woodland.
Why was it there? This author had carried a treecreeper photo in his wallet for
seven years after emigrating to New
Zealand in 1960, to remind him of home. The
coincidence led to a search of Wilson's
portfolio, producing 150 paired images; many were weird - grooves on a bird's
toenails? Dingle beach, Ireland;
same time of day, same tide level, directly into a red sun?
Coincidences in their characters came next: both learned art
from their parents, at university they looked and dressed like twins, graduated
with first class honours in Natural History, won prizes in diving, taught
Sunday schools, and worked with teams
investigating grouse
declines in Scotland. Following in Wilson's footsteps leads to a new
appreciation of the necessity to understand things; to find reasons for beauty,
music, art, and poetry; philosophy, religion, and the occult. Can we solve the
problem of finding any acceptable future for humanity?
John Flux the author of this book was born 1934 in Maymyo,
Burma; moved to Channel Islands, UK, 1939 -1940; Scotland 1940-1960. At school
(Mackie Academy, Stonehaven) no biology was
taught, but in the final year 2 hours every Friday was spent on Hamlet. After a
BSc and PhD at Aberdeen
university, John joined Ecology Division DSIR in 1960 to study hares at night.
To occupy the day, a starling study began in 1970. Apart from papers on these,
as an old-style naturalist he has published on trout, grouse, swallows,
thrushes, blackbirds, wallabies, butterflies, cats, pigeons, possums,
rats; fleas, ticks, and seed burrs
carried; leaf shapes and colour,
tree-trunk diameter, by-the-wind sailors, bird-nest/plant mutualism,
dandelions, lichens, wool-carder bees, harriers on road-kill, colour-blindness,
moth evolution, bird spacing, and "Biogeographic theory and the number and
habitat of moas". Deluxe Edition
