The Blackbird Diaries by Karen Lloyd
In The Blackbird Diaries, Karen Lloyd shares her deep-rooted affection for all our treasured wildlife and issues a clarion call for greater conservation of our land and its species.
"Sure to delight readers and fans of British wildlife.. Like all good nature writing books, Lloyd's prose is to be savoured. Not raced through and devoured like the latest crime thriller, but to be absorbed, enjoyed and reflected upon." Megan Shersby, BBC Countryfile magazine; "A writer of rare talent... Lloyd quietly and unassumingly shares her observations of nature, drawing you into a world made rich with the company of birds. Nothing is beyond her eye - from wavering flocks of lapwing, or the mad arcs of swifts to the majesty of sea eagles, the evening sunlight caught crystalline in their eyes." Miriam Darlington, BBC Wildlife; "A charming and informative account... [Lloyd] has a keen eye and a quiet, understated way of describing her neighbourhood that I found captivating. It brought to mind the writing of ... Kathleen Jamie ... Keenly observed." Katharine Norbury, Caught by the River
Karen Lloyd is an award-winning nature writer and environmental activist based in Cumbria, and is Writer in Residence at the Future Places Centre, University of Lancaster. Her first book, The Gathering Tide; A Journey Around the Edgelands of Morecambe Bay, won the Striding Edge Productions Prize for Place in The Lakeland Book of the Year Awards in 2016. The Blackbird Diaries, winner of The Lakeland Arts and Literature Award 2018, is an intimate account of the wildlife in Lloyd’s Cumbrian garden, the South Lakes landscape, the Solway coast and the Hebridean islands of Mull and Staffa, and includes environmental narratives exploring the story of the last golden eagle in England and the demise of our breeding curlews. Abundance; Nature in Recovery (2021) enquires into abundance in the Anthropocene.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781910192962 |
| ISBN 10 | 1910192961 |
| Title | The Blackbird Diaries |
| Author | Karen Lloyd |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Saraband |
| Year published | 2017-11-16 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Winner of Lakeland Book of the Year Awards, Bookends Prize for Art and Literature 2018 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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