Robert Burton's books

"They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works"
Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621.

I have made my living as an author since 1967 and have published 40 titles on natural history.

	Shackleton at South Georgia (Robert Burton, 2001). A 24-page booklet which tells the story of Shackleton's 3 visits to South Georgia, with many little known photos, and an account by the mountaineer Stephen Venables of his re-enactment of Shackleton's crossing of South Georgia. I am very proud of this booklet because I produced it by desktop publishing. I am selling it in aid of the restoration of the Stromness Villa, where Shackleton finished his crossing of South Georgia. You can obtain it from me for £3.50 (inc. p&p).
	The World of the Hummingbird (Firefly Books, 2001) "Burton treats complex matters with a thoroughness that would make any scientist proud, yet with a clarity that would captivate any lay person." Dr. H. Ross Hawkins, President of The Hummingbird Society. "Burton's entertaining text is a great read for the non-scientist wishing to know more about the biology of these lovely little creatures." Ethan Temeles, Professor of Biology, Amherst College.
	Drawn to the Forest (Wildlife Art Gallery, 2000). This is a Millenium celebration of the New Forest by The Society of Wildlife Artists. Thirty artists contributed over 150 colour plates, and I provided the text. For more about The Society of Wildlife Artists, go to http://freespace.virgin.net/swla.web/
	Nature Notes (Hodder & Stoughton, 1999) A collection of my Nature Notes from the DailyTelegraph. It was published to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of Nature Notes by my father in 1949.
	The RSPB Birdfeeder Handbook (Dorling Kindersley, 1990) was published in five European language editions and was rewritten as The National Audubon Society North American Birdfeeder Handbook. The revised, updated and enlarged New RSPB Birdfeeder Handbook was published in 2000. Total sales of all editions now top 1 million copies.

My earliest books are:
Animals in the Antarctic (Abelard-Schuman), Animal Senses and Ponds (David & Charles), The Life and Death of Whales (Deutsch, two editions), The Language of Smell (Routledge, Kegan Paul), Hills and Moors and Nature by the Roadside (Educational Publishing).

In the late 1960s, my father, Dr. Maurice Burton, and I wrote over 300,000 words for Purnell's Encyclopedia of Animal Life. This was a 'part-work' issued as 96 weekly magazines. It was extremely successful and was reissued in several forms during the next decade.

Other titles include:
Nature's Night Life (Blandford, 1982) in the US Librarian's Top 100 Science titles for 1982.

Egg, Nature's Miracle of Packaging (Collins, 1988) shortlisted by COPUS for the Science Book Prize and chosen by Library Journal as one of the best Sci-Tech books for 1988.