Who is that bird?
Wordsmith Robert Macfarlane and illustrator Jackie Morris.
URSZULA SOLTYS
Inspired by such iconic tomes as The Observer’s Book of Birds and Reader’s Digest Book of British Birds, the pair have created a very different kind of field guide.
AFTER TWO massively successful and highly influential collaborations – The Lost Words (2017) and The Lost Spells (2020) – the formidable duo of illustrator Jackie Morris and wordsmith extraordinaire Robert Macfarlane are back. Like their two earlier volumes, this current enterprise is a passionate and lyrical rallying cry to both revel in the beauty of the natural world and to stop its wanton destruction.
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