Great Scott!
BESIDES founding the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust in 1946, the list of achievements to the name of Sir Peter Scott, only son of Capt Scott of the Antarctic, is impressively multi-faceted: painter, writer, glider pilot, champion skater, one of the first natural-history broadcasters, Olympic yachtsman, ‘architect of modern conservation’, founder of the World Wildlife Fund and the first person to be knighted for services to conservation and the environment.
To celebrate its 70th anniversary, the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust has published Peter Scott: Collected Writings 1933–1989 (£14.99, www.wwt.org.uk), with a foreword by The Duke of Edinburgh, which brings together inspiring and perceptive pieces by Scott on everything from rocket-netting wild geese to the creatures of Loch Ness. Produced for a range of publications, including COUNTRY LIFE, over the course of more than 50 years, many of the articles have never been published in book format before—they make for fascinating reading.