The Running Sky
A Animals, Nature, Science book. A beautiful, articulate and evocative celebration of bird life, bird watching and bird song. Delightful.
The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural worldBeginning in summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland and ending with nightjars like giant moths in the heart of England, Tim Dee maps his encounters with birds over four decades of tracking them around the world. He tells of familiar but near-global birds like sparrows, starlings and ravens, and exotic species, like electrically coloured hummingbirds in California and bee-eaters in Africa. Dee restores us to...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 304 pages
- ISBN: 9781784871147 / 0
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I wish I could give 2.5 stars. There are real benefits to reading this book, by learning new things about birds you know of (like how robins use ant acid to rid themselves of lice) and about birds you never see plainly in the UK (like the woodcock and nightjar). There is a really worrying chapter (January) where he visits a major in... If you enjoy Kathleen Jamie's writing, you'll enjoy this. It leaves you with the same inner calm. Tim Dee writes beautifully and poetically. This is not a book to read cover to cover. It's a book to dip into when you're in the right mood. A beautiful, articulate and evocative celebration of bird life, bird watching and bird song. Delightful.
