The Running Sky: A Bird-Watching Life
Author(s): Tim Dee
"The Running Sky" records a lifetime of looking at birds. Beginning in summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland and ending with crepuscular nightjars like giant moths in the heart of England, Tim Dee maps his own observations and encounters over four decades of tracking birds across the globe. He tells of near-global birds like sparrows, starlings and ravens, and exotic species, like electrically coloured hummingbirds in California and bee-eaters and broadbills in Africa. In doing so, he brilliantly restores us to the primacy of looking, the thrill of watching, and takes us outside, again and again, to stand - with or without binoculars - under the storm of life over our heads, and to marvel once more at what is flying about us.
General Information
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- : Vintage
- : Vintage
- : 0.19
- : 02 June 2010
- : 198mm X 129mm X 17mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Tim Dee
- : Paperback
- : 598.092
- : 272
- : WNCB
More About The Product
An extraordinary, inspiring book about a lifetime of observing birds, already acclaimed as a classic
Tim Dee was born in Liverpool in 1961. He has worked as a BBC radio producer for twenty years and divides his life between Bristol and Cambridge. This is his first book.