Greenery

Journeying with the Spring from Southern Africa to the Arctic

Greenery
Tim Dee
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 368pg
25 Mar 2021 UK
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9781784707897
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' A joyful, poetic hymn to spring. . . Dee is one of our greatest living nature writers' ObserverOne December, in midsummer South Africa, Tim Dee was watching swallows. They were at home there, but the same birds would soon begin journeying north to Europe, where their arrival marks the beginning of spring. Greenery recounts how Tim Dee tries to follow the season and its migratory birds, making remarkable journeys in the Sahara, the Straits of Gibraltar, Sicily, Britain, and finally by the shores of the Arctic Ocean in northern Scandinavia. On each adventure, he is in step with the very best days of the year - the time of song and nests and eggs, of buds and blossoms and leafing. ' A masterpiece. . . I can' t imagine I' ll ever stop thinking about it' Max Porter' Fascinating, horizon-expanding, life-enhancing' Lucy Jones, author of Losing Eden
A joyful, poetic hymn to spring. . . [by] one of our greatest living nature writers. . . Greenery is an education in looking at, and loving, nature. . . It is a lesson in how to love the world, in how to look at it, and behind everything there beats a deeper message: that spring cannot exist without winter, that life needs death to define it. -- Alex Preston * Observer * This book has changed the way I think about seasons and migration, humans and birds, time and life. He is a virtuoso handler of sound, knowledge and language. It' s a masterpiece. I can' t imagine I' ll ever stop thinking about it. -- Max Porter A masterpiece of nature writing. . . No one else in the genre shows anything like Dee' s command of prose, tone, voice, pace, depth and phrasing. . . It' s the sort of book that, in its expressive power, its creativity, the richness of its humanity, might make the world worth saving. -- Richard Smyth * New Statesman * "Nature Writing", says the classification on the back. Partly true. He' s good at that. But leaving it there is a bit like saying that Wordsworth was a gardener and Springsteen is a harmonica player. Dee is one of our best living writers of non-fiction, and Greenery. . . is perhaps his best book yet. . . It couldn' t be more timely. -- Michael Kerr * Daily Telegraph * A superb nature writer. . . Miraculous. . . Ardent, playful, quietly subversive - this is how Dee has always written, but his originality and learning mean he never needs to resort to the devotional swooning that has always plagued writing about the non-human world. . . It' s a deeply affecting[ending]. . . The effect is like a painter' s varnish, deepening shadows but intensifying colours. You go back to the start. -- William Atkins * Guardian *
Tim Dee has been a birdwatcher all his life. His first book, The Running Sky (2009), described his first five birdwatching decades. In the same year he collaborated with the poet Simon Armitage on the anthology The Poetry of Birds. Since then he has written and edited several critically acclaimed books- Four Fields (2013), a study of modern pastoral, which was shortlisted for the 2014 Ondaatje Prize; Ground Work (as editor, 2017), a collection of new commissioned writing on place by contemporary writers; and most recently, Landfill (2018), a modern nature-junk monograph on gulls and rubbish. He left the BBC in 2018 having worked as a radio producer for nearly thirty years. He lives in three places- in a flat in inner-city Bristol, in a cottage on the edge of the Cambridgeshire Fens, and in the last-but-one house from the south western tip of Africa, at the Cape of Good Hope.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781784707897
Published: 25 Mar 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 35mm
Weight: 500g
Pages: 368

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