Waiting for the Albino Dunnock: How birds can change your life
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (749 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06Y1BH1TW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 228 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Personal and elegiac in tone, the writing is an unusual combination of prose poems based on the actual experience of seeing a specific bird for the first time, woven with elements of science and wisdom traditions, ornithology (and its punning counterpart, ornitheology), mythology and philosophy, taxonomy and history, literature and folklore, conveying the wider picture of what it means to be human in relationship to nature. Occasional journeys farther afield take the listener to truly wild places in the Outer Hebrides and Eastern Europe. It describes encounters with particular birds in the landscapes of East Anglia, where the author is rooted. Yet the ordinary experience of bird-watching is also far more than just that. Written by a beginner bird-watcher with the freshness and passion of a convert, Waiting for the Albino Dunnock explores the world of birds through the seasons of a single year. The beauty of birds has the power to change lives, as it did the author's, and, as in the case of the all-but-legendary snow leopard, it is more about the sear