The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
By Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
Read by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
Unabridged
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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9798212678407
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ISBN: 9798212678322
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ISBN: 9798212678360
| Runtime: | 3.63 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Nature |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
A June 2026 LibraryReads Pick for Notable Nonfiction
From the bestselling authors of The Lost Words, a dazzling celebration of endangered birds.
The Book of Birds is a field guide with a difference: It shows listeners not just how to identify birds, but also how to identify with them. Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris conjure the unique spirit of nearly fifty once-common species: avocet to yellowhammer, kestrel to kingfisher, skylark to nightingale. In lyrical and incantatory essays, Macfarlane describes each bird's habits and habitats, their patterns of flight and patterns of song, how they hunt or fish or scavenge or gather, how they nest and raise their chicks, the myths that attend them, the threats that shadow them―and how their lives intersect with our own. The Book of Birds is a love letter to the thrilling variety and mysteries of birdlife, and a clarion call to halt the rapid depletion of our skies.
Author
Author Bio: Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people, and place. He is the recipient of the E. M. Forster Prize for Literature and the Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence, among others. His best-selling books have been translated into more than thirty languages, won many prizes around the world, and been widely adapted for film, music, theater, radio, and dance. He has also written operas, plays, and films including River and Mountain, both narrated by Willem Dafoe. He has collaborated with artists, including Olafur Eliasson and Stanley Donwood, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally bestselling books of nature-poetry and art, The Lost Words and The Lost Spells. He lives in Cambridge, England, where he is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Author Bio: Jackie Morris
Jackie Morris grew up in the Vale of Evesham, dreaming of becoming an artist and living by the sea. She studied at Hereford College of Arts and at Bath Academy, and went on to illustrate for
the New Statesman, Independent and Guardian among many other publications. As a children’s author and artist, she has created over forty books, including beloved classics such as Song of the Golden
Hare, Tell Me A Dragon, East of the Sun, West of the Moon and The Wild Swans. She collaborated with Ted Hughes, and her books have sold more than a million copies worldwide. Jackie now lives in a
cottage on the cliffs of Pembrokeshire, which she shares with a small pride of cats and various other gentle creatures.Titles by Author
Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Nature |
| Runtime: | 3.63 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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