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The Running Sky

Tim Dee

From Shelf: Favourite Natural History.

The Running Sky records a lifetime of looking at birds. Begining 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.

The Running Sky records a lifetime of looking at birds. Begining 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.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
272
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
ISBN:
9780099516491
Published Date:
3/6/2010
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 17mm
Weight:
191g
Category:
Wildlife: birds & birdwatching

RRP: £9.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780099516491


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