"An unusual and beautiful wander through the world of birds, as seen by the author as he looks at history, the art world, and the difficulties birds face today."
Diving through history and soaring across borders this truly fascinating book about birds was winner of the readers’ vote in Poland’s most prestigious literary prize, the Nike Award. Author Stanislaw Lubienski first began to observe birds as a child, he explores how people and art (stories, paintings, music, and dance) interact with birds.
While he has always lived in and around his home town of Szczesliwice, his love for birds has taken him in person and in his thoughts around the world and back in time. I picked up my love for birds through my father, at home as a child we looked after some blind pheasants he had rescued, once he even nursed a particularly ill-tempered seagull back to health.
So, I smiled at the story of James Bond, winced in sympathy as I heard how the photo of the eagle owl was taken, and my heart ached at the Last of the Curlews. A little bit different and a lot lovely, The Birds they Sang has crept into my heart to become a Liz Robinson Pick of the Month.
Birds have inspired people since the dawn of time. They are the notes behind Mozart's genius, the colours behind Audubon's art and ballet's swansong.
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Birds have inspired people since the dawn of time. They are the notes behind Mozart's genius, the colours behind Audubon's art and ballet's swansong.
The Birds They Sang features in the following genres: Popular Science, Biographies & Autobiographies, Gift Books, Liz Robinson's Picks of the Month, Non-Fiction Books of the Month, Science: general issues, Mathematics and Science, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Stationery and miscellaneous items, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, Recommendations, Nature and the natural world: general interest
Hardback. £11.69, down from the £12.99 cover price. Temporarily Out Of Stock.
The Birds They Sang was written by Stanislaw Lubienski and published by The Westbourne Press
The Birds They Sang has 224 pages
£11.69, reduced from £12.99. Temporarily Out Of Stock.
