A Sweet, Wild Note: What We Hear When the Birds Sing
by Smyth, Richard

Format: Paperback
Code: 14983
Condition: New
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'A lively sense of the absurd, a wryly precise prose style and an appropriately magpie-like curiosity for his subject. There's a wonderful democracy of reference to a book that draws on Radiohead and The Simpsons as well as Messiaen and Duchamp; that considers East End bird-catching alongside the Romantics and current bioacoustics research. . . . Smyth has taught himself to hear, and it's impossible to read his vivid account and not listen just a little closer yourself.' -Spectator
'Between the fibrillating throats of birds and the human mind lies an extraordinary landscape, a place created by the intersection of culture, biology, and literature. Richard Smyth is a brilliant, insightful, and witty guide in this fascinating terrain.' -David George Haskell, author, Pulitzer finalist The Forest Unseen
'This is a delightful book that does exactly what it says on the cover: it plays a sweet wild note. If you are already tuned in to bird song you will learn a lot more and if you aren't you will want to be. Reading it honestly seems to have improved my (ornithological) listening and hearing as well as cheering my heart.' -Sara Maitland, author, A Book of Silence
ISBN: 9781783963775
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson
Year of Publication: 2019
Page Count: 199