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The Screaming Sky - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT NATURE WRITING PRIZE 2021

Charles Foster

From Shelf: Christmas Gifts

This is a radical new look at the Common Swift - a numerous but profoundly un-common bird - by Charles Foster, author of the New York Times Bestseller, Being a Beast. Foster follows the swifts throughout the world, manically, lyrically, yet scientifically.

Swifts live in perpetual summer. They inhabit the air like nothing on the planet. They watched the continents shuffle to their present places and the mammals evolve. They are not ours, though we like to claim them. They defy all our categories, and present no passports as they surf the winds across the worlds. They sleep in the high thin air - their wings controlled by an alert half-brain. This is a radical new look at the Common Swift - a numerous but profoundly un-common bird - by Charles Foster, author of the New York Times Bestseller, Being a Beast. Foster follows the swifts throughout the world, manically, lyrically, yet scientifically. The poetry of swifts is in their facts, and this book, in Little Toller's monograph series, draws deeply on the latest extraordinary discoveries.

Format:
Hardback
Publisher:
Little Toller Books
ISBN:
9781908213846
Published Date:
14/4/2021
Category:
Wildlife: birds & birdwatching

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RRP: £15

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9781908213846

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