The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris **Signed, independent bookshop exclusive edition**

Signed by both authors. Independent Bookshop Exclusive edition comes with a limited-edition numbered print

The Book of Birds is a beautiful compendium of forty-nine once-common bird
species native to these isles. From Dippers to Divers, Kestrels to Kingfishers,
birds of the moorlands and the mountains and the city and the sea, Robert
Macfarlane and Jackie Morris conjure the unique spirit of each remarkable
species, many of which are now facing extinction.
In lyrical and incantatory essays, Macfarlane describes each bird’s habits and
habitats, their patterns of flight and patterns of song, how they hunt or fish or
scavenge or gather, how they nest and raise their chicks, the myths which
attend them, the threats which shadow them – and how their lives intersect with
our own. On every page we encounter Morris’s exhilarating artwork, painted from
life in watercolour and gold leaf, and animated with an extraordinary attention to
detail. And hidden amid this dazzling flock of species are the universal Wonders
of Birds…

Seven years in the making, The Book of Birds is a love letter to the dizzying
variety and wild, idiosyncratic mysteries of birdlife, and a clarion call to halt the
rapid depletion of our skies. It is a book to be treasured by bird-lovers of all ages
and a future classic reference text.