{"product_id":"9780008490836","title":"Bird School : A Beginner in the Wood","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Nicolson, Adam\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eScotland\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 10 April 2025 by HarperCollins Publishers (William Collins) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 448 pages\u003cbr\u003e189 x 244 x 42 | 708g\u003cp\u003e'This is some of the best English prose of our time'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e SPECTATOR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘A feast for mind and soul' ISABELLA TREE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'A marvellous and revelatory guide to our native bird-life'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDAILY MAIL\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\u003cp\u003e 'Golden threads of literary, philosophical and scientific insight run through Nicolson’s book, along with a sense that we are embarking on an adventure with him into a realm that we cannot hope to fully understand'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e THE TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'A worthy addition to a literary lineage that stretches back to the 18th-century writer and naturalist Gilbert White…Bird School, then, is a fitting title: we should learn to rekindle our enduring love affair with birds, before they vanish from our sight' DAILY TELEGRAPH\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nicolson, Adam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52173609173176,"sku":"9780008490836","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780008490836.jpg?v=1760357315","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780008490836","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}