Thomas Hardy notes the thrush’s ‘full-hearted evensong of joy
illimited’, Gilbert White observes how swallows sweep through the
air but swifts ‘dash round in circles’ and Rachel Carson
watches sanderlings at the ocean’s edge, scurrying ‘across the
beach like little ghosts’. From early times, we have been
entranced by the bird life around us. This anthology brings
together poetry and prose in celebration of birds, records their
behaviour, flight, song and migration, the changes across the
seasons and in different habitats – in woodland and pasture, on
river, shoreline and at sea – and our own interaction with them.
From India to America, from China to Rwanda, writers marvel at
birds – the building of a long-tailed tit’s nest, the soaring
eagle, the extraordinary feats of migration and the pleasures to be
found in our own gardens. Including extracts by Geoffrey Chaucer,
Dorothy Wordsworth, Richard Jefferies, Charles Darwin, James Joyce,
John Keats, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Anton Chekhov,
Kathleen Jamie, Jonathan Franzen and Barbara Kingsolver among many
others, this rich anthology will be welcomed by bird-lovers,
country ramblers and anyone who has taken comfort or joy in a bird
in flight.
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