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The Running Sky: A Bird-Watching Life
Tim Dee
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Description for The Running Sky: A Bird-Watching Life
Paperback. Beginning in summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland and ending with crepuscular nightjars like giant moths in the heart of England, this title maps the author's own observations and encounters over the years of tracking birds across the globe. It tells of near-global birds like sparrows, starlings and ravens, and exotic species. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BM; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 200.
The Running Sky records a lifetime of looking at birds. Begining in summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland and ending with crepuscular nightjars like giant moths in the heart of England, Tim Dee maps his own observations and encounters over four decades of tracking birds across the globe. He tells of near-global birds like sparrows, starlings and ravens, and exotic species, like electrically coloured hummingbirds in California and bee-eaters and broadbills in Africa. In doing so he brilliantly restores us to the primacy of looking, the thrill of watching, and takes us outside, again and again, to stand ... Read more
The Running Sky records a lifetime of looking at birds. Begining in summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland and ending with crepuscular nightjars like giant moths in the heart of England, Tim Dee maps his own observations and encounters over four decades of tracking birds across the globe. He tells of near-global birds like sparrows, starlings and ravens, and exotic species, like electrically coloured hummingbirds in California and bee-eaters and broadbills in Africa. In doing so he brilliantly restores us to the primacy of looking, the thrill of watching, and takes us outside, again and again, to stand ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099516491
SKU
V9780099516491
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Ref
99-1
About Tim Dee
Tim Dee has been a birdwatcher all his life. His first book, The Running Sky (2009), described his first five birdwatching decades. 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: Four Fields (2013), a study of modern pastoral, which ... Read more
Reviews for The Running Sky: A Bird-Watching Life
The Running Sky has the makings of a classic. It's beautifully written, extraordinarily vigilant, and very moving...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 Its author has a forensic eye for detail and a gift for poetry...an intimate and erudite account... ... Read more
Andrew Motion Its author has a forensic eye for detail and a gift for poetry...an intimate and erudite account... ... Read more