The Running Sky by Tim Dee
Storm petrels fly from a midnight sea in June to their nesting holes in a two-thousand-year-old stone tower; a million starlings gather to roost from all points across a freezing winter sky; and migrant redstarts, only weeks out of their nest, set off over alien seas on their way to Africa. This book records a lifetime of looking at birds.
The Running Sky has the makings of a classicIt's beautifully written, extraordinarily vigilant, and very moving. Most remarkable of all, it manages to give a sense of the bird world as being something which embraces and contains our own - which means that, as we read it, we learn a lot about ourselves as well as the fellow creatures flying through, over and around our own lives. Those who love birds will love this book, and envy Tim Dee for both the many adventures his year contained, and the grace with which he describes them A beautifully haunting and involving memoir. The writer's passion for birds becomes his way of expressing his whole relationship to landscape and history and family: unsentimental and urgently contemporary
Tim Dee was born in Liverpool in 1961. He has worked as a BBC radio producer for twenty years and divides his life between Bristol and Cambridge. This is his first book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224081986 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224081985 |
| Title | The Running Sky |
| Author | Tim Dee |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2009-09-24 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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