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The Bedside Book of Birds

Graeme Gibson

Description

The Bedside Book of Birds is an unexpected and fascinating treasure trove of paintings, drawings, essays and scientific observations – it marvellously conveys the hope, the longing and the enchantment that birds have evoked in humans in all cultures and all times.

Beautifully produced, the book contains more than 100 illustrations, ranging from early cave paintings through works by Audubon, Morris and Gould, to Inuit and other works created in the twentieth century. There are writings by naturalists like W.H. Hudson, Laurens van der Post, Peter Matthiessen and Barry Lopez, and by classical authors such as Shakespeare, Coleridge, Melville and Poe. There is also a rich seam of contemporary work by Jorge Luis Borges, Ted Hughes, Italo Calvino, Bruce Chatwin and Haruki Murakami, among many others.

This is a book to explore, to savour and to learn from – a book for the winged soul in all of us.