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Storm petrels fly from a midnight sea in June to their nesting holes in a two-thousand-year-old stone tower; a million starlings gather to roost from all points across a freezing winter sky; migrant redstarts, only weeks out of their nest, set off over alien seas on their way to Africa; a pair of airborne swifts lie together for an instant as they mate hundreds of feet up in the sky. The Running Sky records a lifetime of looking at birds.There have been many books on the birdwatcher’s awkward obsession, but there has been nothing until this that so brilliantly restores us to the primacy of looking, the thrill of watching and thinking about the flying wild creatures that share our planet.Tim Dee writes about what he has seen in a language we have never read before but will recognise as accurate and familiar, with insights new-minted yet immediately understood, in prose that is at once precise and poetic. The Running Sky follows the birds’ year from one summer to the next.Tim Dee maps his own observations and encounters over four decades, tracking birds – well-known and bizarre, flying free, in the nest, in his hand as he rings them, or dead and stuffed on his mantelpiece – from northern Shetland to south-west England via downtown Los Angeles and a tobacco farm in southern Zambia.He writes about near-global birds like sparrows, starlings and ravens, and exotic species, like electrically coloured hummingbirds in California and bee-eaters and broadbills in Africa.The book begins in the summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland and ends with crepuscular nightjars like giant moths in the heart of England, and takes us outside, again and again, to stand – with or without binoculars – under the storm of life over our heads, and to marvel once more, as all humankind has, at what is flying about us. In the current resurgence of British nature writing, The Running Sky will take its place in the very first rank.

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`Lyrical...he possesses an awareness which makes this a touchingly human document.'
--Daily Express

"What makes his book wonderful - is his passion... He captures the thrill and puzzlement of watching birds" --The Sunday Herald

'"Serious and playful"... a powerful and intensely poetic paean to what others have called "the wonder of birds".'
--The Saturday Guardian

'in a class of its own ... a chastening as well as an enchanting book'
--Guardian

"Dee's extraordinary, beautifully written account...is a fine addition to the flourishing genre of British nature writing" --Sunday Times Culture

`the best "new age" nature book this year' --Independent

`in a class of its own' --The Week
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An extraordinary, inspiring book about a lifetime of observing birds

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  • PublisherJonathan Cape
  • Publication date2009
  • ISBN 10 0224081985
  • ISBN 13 9780224081986
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages258
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