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“Baker turned his bulging set of ornithological field journals into a 120-page prose poem. It’s astonishingly energy-filled.” Read more...
Robert Macfarlane, Literary Scholar
“It’s the story of this pursuit of the bird and how he came to feel a kind of affinity with it, and how he uses the bird as a symbol for the things he feels, or wants to feel, about the natural world.” Read more...
The best books on Birdwatching
Jeremy Mynott, Biologist
Our most recommended books
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Patriot: A Memoir
by Alexei Navalny, translated by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel -
Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov -
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
by Safiya Sinclair -
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
by Cristina Rivera Garza -
Question 7
by Richard Flanagan -
The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
by Manjula Martin
