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The Running Sky (The Birds and the Bees): A Bird-Watching Life (Vintage Classic Birds and Bees Series)

The Running Sky (The Birds and the Bees): A Bird-Watching Life (Vintage Classic Birds and Bees Series)

by TimDee (Author)

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    Paperback 2016

    $8.22
Synopsis

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 world Beginning 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 the primacy of looking, and takes us outside, again and again, to marvel at what is flying above us.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Edition: 01
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 05 May 2016
ISBN 10: 1784871141
ISBN 13: 9781784871147
Book Overview: The Birds and the Bees series from Vintage Classics - beautiful editions of the finest British nature writing

Media Reviews
The Running Sky has the makings of a classic. It's beautifully written, extraordinarily vigilant, and very moving. Most remarkable of all, it manages to give a sense of the bird world as being something which embraces and contains our own - which means that, as we read it, we learn a lot about ourselves as well as the fellow creatures flying through, over and around our own lives * Andrew Motion *
Lyrical...sure to become a genuine addition to the literature of birds * Daily Express *
What makes his book wonderful is his passion... He captures the thrill and puzzlement of watching birds as I have never previously seen it captured * Sunday Herald *
Its author has a forensic eye for detail and a gift for poetry...an intimate and erudite account... he is in the front rank of contributors to the literature of natural history * Daily Telegraph *
Serious and playful...creates a powerful and intensely poetic paean to what others have called the wonder of birds * Guardian *
Author Bio
Tim Dee is a writer and BBC radio producer. His first book, The Running Sky (2009), described his first five birdwatching decades, and in the same year he collaborated with the poet Simon Armitage on the anthology The Poetry of Birds. Since then he has written and edited several critically acclaimed books including Four Fields, which was shortlisted for the 2014 Ondaatje Prize.