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Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood

By (author) Adam Nicolson





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From the bestselling and award-winning nature writer Adam Nicolson, a glorious new adventure into the British wilderness. By Adam Nicolson’s home, there is a forgotten field overrun by bracken and thicketed by brambles. It is passed through by deer, wild boar and many birds – nightingales who sing in the evening, a cuckoo, turtle doves, pheasants, robins, owls. A couple of years ago, he deicide to embark on an attempt to redress his ignorance, to encounter birds, to engage with this marvellous layer of life he had so far looked past. He wanted to look and listen, to return to ‘bird school’ and see what it might teach him. This gorgeous book is the result, tracing Adam’s adventure setting up a small shed on the edge of the field and getting 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. It beautifully written and woven through with philosophy, literature, science and emotion. Bird School pulls back the curtain on seemingly ordinary birds, and exposes our relationship as people with the wild.

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Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers
Published date | 10 Apr 2025
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Format | Digital download
Pages | 304
Dimensions | 0 x 0 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-0-0084-9085-0
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