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Homing - On Pigeons, Dwellings and Why We Return (Paperback)
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Homing - On Pigeons, Dwellings and Why We Return (Paperback)
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List price R308
Loot Price R280
Discovery Miles 2 800
You Save R28 (9%)
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A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR Longlisted for the William Hill Sports
Book of the Year 'Rich and joyous ...The book's quiet optimism
about our ability to change, and to learn to love small things
passionately, will stay with me for a long time' Helen Macdonald
'Big-hearted and quietly gripping' Guardian 'I love Jon Day's
writing and his birds. A marvellous, soaring account' Olivia Laing
'[A] beautiful book about unbeautiful birds' Observer 'This is
nature writing at its best' Financial Times 'Awash with historical
and literary detail, and moving moments ... Wonderful' Telegraph
'Every page of this beautifully written book brought me pleasure'
Charlotte Higgins 'A vivid evocation of a remarkable species and a
rich working-class tradition. It's also a charming defence of a
much-maligned bird, which will make any reader look at our cooing,
waddling, junk-food-loving feathered friends very differently in
future' Daily Mail 'Endlessly interesting and dazzlingly erudite,
this wonderful book will make a home for itself in your heart'
Prospect As a boy, Jon Day was fascinated by pigeons, which he used
to rescue from the streets of London. Twenty years later he moved
away from the city centre to the suburbs to start a family. But in
moving house, he began to lose a sense of what it meant to feel at
home. Returning to his childhood obsession with the birds, he built
a coop in his garden and joined a local pigeon racing club. Over
the next few years, as he made a home with his young family in
Leyton, he learned to train and race his pigeons, hoping that they
might teach him to feel homed. Having lived closely with humans for
tens of thousands of years, pigeons have become powerful symbols of
peace and domesticity. But they are also much-maligned, and
nowadays most people think of these birds, if they do so at all, as
vermin. A book about the overlooked beauty of this species, and
about what it means to dwell, Homing delves into the curious world
of pigeon fancying, explores the scientific mysteries of animal
homing, and traces the cultural, political and philosophical
meanings of home. It is a book about the making of home and making
for home: a book about why we return.
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