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The Screaming Sky - in pursuit of swifts (Paperback)
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The Screaming Sky - in pursuit of swifts (Paperback)
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Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, 2021.
Swifts live in perpetual summer. They inhabit the earth like
nothing else on the planet. They watched the continents shuffle to
their present positions and the mammals evolve. They are not ours,
though we like to claim them. They defer all our categories and
present no passports as they surf the world's winds. They sleep in
the air, their wings controlled by an alert half-brain. Yet for all
their adaptability and longevity swifts have recently been added to
the Red List of endangered birds. The Screaming Sky is a radical
new look at the common swift, a numerous but profoundly uncommon
bird, by Charles Foster, author of the New York Times bestseller
Being a Beast. Foster follows swifts lyrically, manically yet
scientifically. The poetry of swifts lies in their facts and this
book, the paperback of the Wainwright shortlisted monograph, draws
deeply on the latest extraordinary discoveries.
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