A Bird in the Hand – By Bill Doherty – Signed Edition

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A Bird in the Hand tells of the beginnings of the author’s involvement with bird-keeping and of his boyhood apprenticeship with several bird-catchers, birdmen who were not only trappers and poachers, but knowledgeable aviculturalists and countrymen. Set in the hard mining areas of the north-east of England in the early 1960s,