Birds: An Anthology - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1851245294 ISBN 13 : 9781851245291

Editeur : Bodleian Library, 2020

Synopsis

Thomas Hardy notes the thrush's 'full-hearted evensong of joy illimited', Gilbert White observes how swallows sweep through the air but swifts 'dash round in circles' and Rachel Carson watches sanderlings at the ocean's edge, scurrying 'across the beach like little ghosts'. From early times, we have been entranced by the bird life around us. This anthology brings together poetry and prose in celebration of birds, records their behaviour, flight, song and migration, the changes across the seasons and in different habitats - in woodland and pasture, on river, shoreline and at sea - and our own interaction with them. From India to America, from China to Rwanda, writers marvel at birds - the building of a long-tailed tit's nest, the soaring eagle, the extraordinary feats of migration and the pleasures to be found in our own gardens. Including extracts by Geoffrey Chaucer, Dorothy Wordsworth, Richard Jefferies, Charles Darwin, James Joyce, John Keats, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Anton Chekhov, Kathleen Jamie, Jonathan Franzen and Barbara Kingsolver among many others, this rich anthology will be welcomed by bird-lovers, country ramblers and anyone who has taken comfort or joy in a bird in flight.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Eric Fitch Daglish (1892-1966) was a wood engraver and illustrator. His book Woodcuts of British Birds was published in 1925.

Jaqueline Mitchell is a writer and compiler of anthologies, specializing in social and cultural history, and an editor of nonfiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bodleian Library
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1851245294
• ISBN 13: 9781851245291
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Daglish Eric Fitch
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Éditeur: Mitchell Jaqueline
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• Personne responsable: non disponible