{"product_id":"9780008490836","title":"Bird School : A Beginner in the Wood","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Nicolson, Adam \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 10\/04\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 448 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008490836,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A feast for mind and soul, a treasure trove of insights into the enigmatic and enchanting world of the birds we share our lives with but barely notice. I have learnt so much. Every page is a thrill. Bird School has opened my eyes' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Step into the hide for a glorious new encounter with the British wild\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Close to Adam Nicolson’s home in Sussex, there is a forgotten field overrun by bracken and thicketed by brambles. It is the haunt of deer and many birds – nightingales, the occasional cuckoo, ravens, robins, owls and in summer the sweet-singing warblers that come north from Africa to breed in English woods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This gorgeous book charts his attempt to encounter birds, to engage with a marvellous layer of life he had previously almost ignored. He wanted to look and listen, to return to ‘bird school’ and see what it might teach him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e He built a small shed amongst the trees with nesting boxes and bird feeders. Cocooned inside, season after season, he got 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Beautifully written and woven through with philosophy, literature, science and a sense of wonder, always conscious that that this is an age in which the natural world is under siege, Bird School pulls back the curtain on seemingly ordinary birds, taking a long, careful and concerned look at our relationship with the wild.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55205084037493,"sku":"9780008490836","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008490836.jpg?v=1743154612","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780008490836","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}