THE BEDSIDE BOOK OF BIRDS

With the passion of a birdwatcher and hoarder of words, Gibson has spent fifteen years collecting the literary and artistic forms ou r affinity for birds has taken over the centuries. Birds appear again and again in mythology and folk tales, and in literature by wr iters as diverse as Ovid, Thomas Hardy, Kafka, Thoreau and T.S. Eliot. They've been omens, allegories, disguises and guides/ they've been worshipped, eaten, feared and loved. Nor does Gibson forget the fascination they hold for science, as the Galapagos finches di d for Da...[Read more]