The Screaming Sky - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT NATURE WRITING PRIZE 2021
The Screaming Sky - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT NATURE WRITING PRIZE 2021
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This is a radical new look at the Common Swift - a numerous but profoundly un-common bird - by Charles Foster, author of the New York Times Bestseller, Being a Beast. Foster follows the swifts throughout the world, manically, lyrically, yet scientifically.
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The Screaming Sky - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT NATURE WRITING PRIZE 2021 by Charles Foster
Swifts live in perpetual summer. They inhabit the air like nothing on the planet. They watched the continents shuffle to their present places and the mammals evolve. They are not ours, though we like to claim them. They defy all our categories, and present no passports as they surf the winds across the worlds. They sleep in the high thin air - their wings controlled by an alert half-brain. This is a radical new look at the Common Swift - a numerous but profoundly un-common bird - by Charles Foster, author of the New York Times Bestseller, Being a Beast. Foster follows the swifts throughout the world, manically, lyrically, yet scientifically. The poetry of swifts is in their facts, and this book, in Little Toller's monograph series, draws deeply on the latest extraordinary discoveries.
Charles Foster is a writer, philosopher, and Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. He is the author of many books, including the ground-breaking Being a Beast, which is a New York Times Bestseller, was long-listed for the Baillie Gifford and Wainwright Prizes, won an IgNobel Prize and the Deux Million d'Amis prize, and is the subject of a forthcoming feature film. He lives in Oxford and a remote part of the southern Peloponnese.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781908213846 |
| ISBN 10 | 1908213841 |
| Title | The Screaming Sky - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT NATURE WRITING PRIZE 2021 |
| Author | Charles Foster |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little Toller Books |
| Year published | 2021-04-14 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for THE WAINWRIGHT NATURE WRITING PRIZE 2021 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |