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John Boorman's Nature Diary - One Eye, One Finger (Paperback)
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John Boorman's Nature Diary - One Eye, One Finger (Paperback)
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Loot Price R312
Discovery Miles 3 120
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As I step out of the conservatory facing North, supported by my
pusher, the first that catches my eye is the dying Sycamore which
escapes death every year by producing a healthy crop of leaves, but
it looks so decrepit that surely it can't pull that trick yet
again. -1 April, 2020 In his eighty-eighth year, John Boorman uses
his time in lockdown to reflect on the splendour of the surrounding
nature of County Wicklow. Coccooning with his daughter and son
among the hills of Annamoe, Boorman chronicles his daily walks and
observations of the trees on his estate, writing with heightened
appreciation of the beauties of his eyrie using only one eye and
one finger. Poetry flows from his pen as he sits chairbound among
his trees and flora: sycamores, limes, beech, oak, redwood, shrubs
and flowers, birdsong and shifting skies are luminously recorded as
the world falls silent. With illustrations by Susan Morley, this
slim but meditative volume is a remarkable narrative by the creator
of The Emerald Forest, Excalibur and Deliverance - a swansong like
no other.
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