{"product_id":"morris-jackie-robert-macfarlane-the-book-of-birds-a-field-guide-to-wonder-and-loss","title":"Morris, Jackie \u0026 Robert Macfarlane - The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss","description":"\u003cp\u003eA great thinning of the skies is underway. Around 50% of bird species are in\u003cbr\u003edecline worldwide. Our dawns and springs are quieter each year than the last.\u003cbr\u003eAn almost unimaginable abundance has been lost. It does not have to be this\u003cbr\u003eway –– but we will not save what we do not love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Book of Birds\u003c\/em\u003e is a compendium of forty-nine bird species, from Avocet to\u003cbr\u003eYellowhammer, all of which are presently declining or endangered in Britain.\u003cbr\u003eInspired by the classic bird-books with which the authors grew up, this is a field\u003cbr\u003eguide with a difference. It asks not ‘What is that bird?’, but ‘Who is that bird?’ It\u003cbr\u003eshows its readers how to identify birds, but also how to identify with them.\u003cbr\u003eWith lyrical precision and playfulness, Robert Macfarlane evokes each bird’s\u003cbr\u003ehabits and habitats –– their patterns of flight and of song, how they hunt and\u003cbr\u003egather, how they nest and raise their young, the stories and myths which attend\u003cbr\u003ethem, the threats which shadow them, and how their wild lives intersect with our\u003cbr\u003eown. And on every page we encounter Jackie Morris’s exhilarating artwork,\u003cbr\u003epainted in watercolour and gold and animated by an extraordinary attention to\u003cbr\u003edetail and sense of life. Set among this dazzling flock of species are seven\u003cbr\u003esections celebrating the 'Seven Wonders' that together make up the everyday\u003cbr\u003emiracle of 'Bird': Nest, Egg, Beak, Song, Feather, Flight and Migration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeven years in the making, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Birds\u003c\/em\u003e is a love letter to the splendours\u003cbr\u003eand mysteries of birdlife, and a clarion call to halt the loss of birds from land,\u003cbr\u003esea and sky. From Dipper to Dunnock and Kestrel to Kingfisher, from mountain\u003cbr\u003eto ocean and city to river, Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane conjure the\u003cbr\u003eunique spirit and lifeway of each species. This is a book to be treasured by birdlovers\u003cbr\u003eof all ages, and a future classic work of reference.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hamish Hamilton Ltd","offers":[{"title":"*Signed by both Authors* Indies Hardback Book + Exclusive Numbered Print","offer_id":50630750208278,"sku":"RMX-57535","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardback Book","offer_id":50630750241046,"sku":"RMX-57536","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/6a6f1949852c3d2cfbde1c0f7890b30b.png?v=1761049550","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/morris-jackie-robert-macfarlane-the-book-of-birds-a-field-guide-to-wonder-and-loss","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}