Bearded Tit: A Love Story with Feathers

di Rory McGrath (Autore)

Ebury Publishing, 2009

Bearded Tit is Rory McGrath's story of life among birds. From a Cornish boyhood wandering gorse-tipped cliffs listening to the song of the yellowhammer with his imaginary girlfriend, or drawing gravity-defying jackdaws in class when he should have been applying himself to physics, to quoting the Latin names of birds to give himself a fighting chance of a future with JJ - the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. As an adult, or what passes for one, Rory recounts becoming a card-carrying birdwatcher, observing his first skylark - peerless king of the summer sky - while stoned; his repeatedly failed attempts to get up at the crack of dawn like the real twitchers; and his flawed bid to educate his utterly unreconstructed drinking mate Danny in the ways of birding. Rory's tale is a thoroughly educational, occasionally lyrical and highly amusing romp through the hidden byways of birdwatching and, more importantly, a love story you'll never forget.

• Autore: Rory McGrath
• Editore: Ebury Publishing
• Anno: 2009
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 352 p.
• Dimensioni: 198 x 126 mm
• Peso: 239 gr.
• EAN: 9780091924607

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