Walter Marsden - The Lemming Year
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Marsden, Walter - The Lemming Year

London: Chatto & Windus, 1964
First edition. A near fine book in a near fine dust jacket (jacket has one small mark to front cover and light wear to top and bottom of spine) Authoritative work on the natural history of the lemming. Contents include:

Introduction, Distribution, Historical References, Methodical Studies, Winter Quarters, Scandinavian Spring, Diet Sheet,  Summer Nests and Burrows, Breeding Capacity, Coat Colour, Population Cycle,  Upswing of Lemming Cycle, Causes of Decline, Lemming Voracity & Its Effects, Engines of Destruction,   

Predators during a Lemming Cycle in Alaska, Summary of Causes of Cycle, Lemming Year Throughout the Artic, Uses of Pugnacity, Lemming Migrations, Why Migrate, Survival Value of Migrations, New World Migrations, Boil the Water, Panic Migration,  Lemming in Eskimo Life and Folklore, Meaning of the Name Lemming, Bibliography, Index

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Keywords: NATURE, NATURAL HISTORY LEMMING BIOLOGY
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