{"product_id":"bird-school-a-beginner-in-the-wood-by-adam-nicolson","title":"Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood by Adam Nicolson","description":"\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\u003eStep into the hide for a glorious new encounter with the British wild\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClose 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\u003eThis 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\u003eHe 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\u003eBeautifully 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":"Literary Cat Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52885834203400,"sku":"9780008490836","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0967\/7688\/0392\/files\/9780008490836.jpg?v=1764341925","url":"https:\/\/literarycatbooks.myshopify.com\/products\/bird-school-a-beginner-in-the-wood-by-adam-nicolson","provider":"Literary Cat Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}