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Hardback – 154 x 214 mm – 96 pages

Forty-three double page full-colour spreads. Notes on fauna and afterword by Mick Rooney RA.

ISBN 9781843682141

A beautifully produced facsimile of a watercolour artist’s book recording many of the most fascinating birds and animals of the Galápagos Islands. Profits to go to the Galápagos Conservation Trust.

David Pollock was born in London in 1949. He lives in Charlbury, Oxfordshire. He read Chemistry and Economics at Keele and spent his working life in Whitehall, the City and in the direction of two major trade associations. On retirement in 2010 he gained a post-graduate certificate in architectural history at Oxford. He also began to paint full time. Travel, drawing and painting are his lifelong passions. He has filled more than 40 sketchbooks with a record of his journeys in five continents over three decades and, since retirement, has exhibited his strong figurative watercolours in well-received shows in Oxford and London. His first book, published by Pallas Athene, was Journeys: People and Places from a Travelling Life. David was Chairman of Oxfordshire Artweeks, the UK’s biggest and oldest open-studio festival, from 2012 to 2019.

David Pollock has reconnected with the noble art of the topographical illustrator – the type of draughtsman and draughtsmanship that accompanied Darwin on his expeditions
Mick Rooney RA