{"product_id":"bird-school-a-beginner-in-the-wood-9780008490836","title":"Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Adam Nicolson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'This is some of the best English prose of our time' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSPECTATOR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘A feast for mind and soul' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISABELLA TREE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A marvellous and revelatory guide to our native bird-life'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDAILY MAIL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eStep into the hide for a glorious new encounter with the British wild\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClose to Adam Nicolson’s home in Sussex, there is a forgotten field overrun by bracken and thicketed by brambles. It is the haunt of deer and many birds – nightingales, the occasional cuckoo, ravens, robins, owls and in summer the sweet-singing warblers that come north from Africa to breed in English woods.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis gorgeous book charts his attempt to encounter birds, to engage with a marvellous layer of life he had previously almost ignored. He wanted to look and listen, to return to ‘bird school’ and see what it might teach him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe built a small shed amongst the trees with nesting boxes and bird feeders. Cocooned inside, season after season, he got to know the birds: where they nest, how they sing, how they mate and fight, what preys on them, what they are like as living things.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeautifully written and woven through with philosophy, literature, science and a sense of wonder, always conscious that that this is an age in which the natural world is under siege, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBird School \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epulls back the curtain on seemingly ordinary birds, taking a long, careful and concerned look at our relationship with the wild.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGolden threads of literary, philosophical and scientific insight run through Nicolson’s book, along with a sense that we are embarking on an adventure with him into a realm that we cannot hope to fully understand' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A worthy addition to a literary lineage that stretches back to the 18th-century writer and naturalist Gilbert White…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBird School\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, then, is a fitting title: we should learn to rekindle our enduring love affair with birds, before they vanish from our sight' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDAILY TELEGRAPH\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45848654250135,"sku":"9780008490836","price":845.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780008490836.webp?v=1769298292","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/bird-school-a-beginner-in-the-wood-9780008490836","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}