Octavo (23 cm), pp. 304. Later printing. Green cloth boards, pictorial jacket. Translated from the Russian, with introduction and annotations by Australian National University professor of Modern European Languages Kevin Windle. Includes black and white line drawings of waterfowl. Black remainder dot on bottom and top edges. A contemporary of Gogol and Turgenev, Aksakov writes here about the water birds of the Russian steppe. Dust jacket present.