A Sweet, Wild Note: What We Hear When the Birds Sing - Couverture rigide

Smyth, Richard

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ISBN 10 : 178396314X ISBN 13 : 9781783963140

Editeur : Elliott & Thompson Limited, 2017

Synopsis

A Guardian Readers Choice Best Book of 2017

Birdsong is woven into our culture, our emotions, our landscape; it is the soundtrack to our world. We have tried to capture this fleeting, ephemeral beauty, and the feelings it inspires, for millennia.

In this fascinating account, Richard Smyth asks what it is about birdsong that we so love. Exploring the myriad ways in which it has influenced literature, music, science and our very ideas of what it means to be British, Smyth s nuanced investigation shows that what we hear says as much about us, our dreams and desires, as it does about the birds and their songs.

At a time when our birdsong is growing quieter, with fewer voices, more thinly spread, A Sweet, Wild Note is a celebration of the complex relationships between birds, people and the land; it is also a passionate call to arms lest our trees and hedgerows fall silent.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Richard Smyth is a writer, researcher and editor based in Bradford. He is a regular contributor to Bird Watching magazine, and reached the final of Mastermind with a specialist subject of British birds. He writes and reviews for The Times, Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, New Statesman, BBC Wildlife, New Humanist, Illustration and New Scientist. He also writes novels and short fiction, and has written several books on English history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Elliott & Thompson Limited
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 178396314X
• ISBN 13: 9781783963140
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible