A Sweet, Wild Note
Elliott & Thompson Limited (Verlag)
978-1-78396-314-0 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
Contents; Prologue - page ix; 1. An Infinity of Possibilities - page 1; 2. A Song of Many Parts - page 27; 3. Coming Home - page 61; 4. An Elusive Song - page 93; 5. A Captive Melody - page 127; 6. A Hush Descends - page 155; Further Reading - page 175; Acknowledgements - page 183; Index - page 185
Erscheinungsdatum | 28.09.2017 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78396-314-X / 178396314X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78396-314-0 / 9781783963140 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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