A passionate and informative celebration of birds: the perfect gift for the hard-core or amateur twitcher – or for anyone who cares about the natural world.
Simon Barnes is the multi-award-winning former chief sportswriter for The Times. He is also a novelist, nature writer and horseman, and the author of over 20 books, including the bestselling How to be a Bad Birdwatcher.
Finely illustrated and wonderfully tactile
*NFU Countryside*
A well written, heartfelt book about the wonders of birds
*Nudge Book*
He is a fine professional writer who enjoys his craft
*Bird Watch*
Barnes infuses this playful, conversational exploration of the
relationship of birds to humanity with a sense of well-informed
wonder... This is a generous volume in which Barnes unabashedly
shares his affinity for "anyone with birding in the blood"'
*Publishers Weekly*
Barnes' fascination with the avian world is at the heart of this
book, a passion shared through engaging, often lively and always
conversational text
*BBC Wildlife*
Eclectic and often witty volume that aims to show how birds live
their lives and in doing so, how they've touched on ours
*BBC Countryfile (Great gifts for book lovers this Christmas)*
A celebration of birds and how they help us understand the world we
live in'
*Nature's Home*
A wise and witty celebration of birds
*The Countryman*
He has an eye for the telling detail... a very attractive range of
reference... More seriously, he has particularly important points
to make about the way birds define places and are in turn defined
by them, about the deep human responses to birdsong and the avian
capacity for flight, and about our special fascination with
raptors'
*TLS.*
A heartfelt celebration of birds - and of their ability to draw us
into the world beyond humanity'
*Reader's Digest.*
A thought-provoking account of why birds are as essential to our
pleasure as they are necessary for our survival... Highly
readable... I really enjoyed Simon Barnes' writing style'
*Cage & Aviary Birds*
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