{"product_id":"9780008490836","title":"Bird School : A Beginner in the Wood","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Nicolson, Adam \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eScotland\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 10 April 2025 by HarperCollins Publishers (William Collins) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 448 pages\u003cbr\u003e189 x 244 x 42 | 708g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e?A feast for mind and soul, a treasure trove of insights into the enigmatic and enchanting world of the birds we share our lives with but barely notice. I have learnt so much. Every page is a thrill. Bird School has opened my eyes' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding\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","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46785961394435,"sku":"9780008490836","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9780008490836.jpg?v=1746004016","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.pro\/products\/9780008490836","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}