The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris & Robert MacFarlane
£35.00
Seven years in the making, The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder & Loss, brings together the creative talents of Jackie Morris and Robert MacFarlane once more.
A great thinning of the skies is underway. Around 50% of bird species are in decline worldwide. Our dawns and springs are quieter each year than the last. An almost unimaginable abundance has been lost. It does not have to be this way –– but we will not save what we do not love, Morris and MacFarlane present a lyrical love letter to the birds within this much anticipated book.
Beautifully illustrated throughout by Morris, the book is a compendium of forty-nine bird species, from Avocet to Yellowhammer, all of which are presently declining or endangered in Britain. Inspired by the classic bird-books with which the authors grew up, this is a field guide with a difference. It asks not ‘What is that bird?’, but ‘Who is that bird?’ It shows its readers how to identify birds, but also how to identify with them.
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