The Screaming Sky

In pursuit of Swifts

The Screaming Sky
Charles Foster
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Paperback
Not defined - 268pg
5 Apr 2022 UK
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9781915068002
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Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, 2021. Swifts live in perpetual summer. They inhabit the earth like nothing else on the planet. They watched the continents shuffle to their present positions and the mammals evolve. They are not ours, though we like to claim them. They defer all our categories and present no passports as they surf the world' s winds. They sleep in the air, their wings controlled by an alert half-brain. Yet for all their adaptability and longevity swifts have recently been added to the Red List of endangered birds. The Screaming Sky is a radical new look at the common swift, a numerous but profoundly uncommon bird, by Charles Foster, author of the New York Times bestseller Being a Beast. Foster follows swifts lyrically, manically yet scientifically. The poetry of swifts lies in their facts and this book, the paperback of the Wainwright shortlisted monograph, draws deeply on the latest extraordinary discoveries.
' Thoughtful, eloquent and beguiling. ' Richard Davenport-Hines, The Oldie
Charles Foster is a writer, philosopher and Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Being a Human and the prize-winning Being a Beast, which is the subject of a forthcoming feature film.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781915068002
Published: 5 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Little Toller Books
Publisher: Little Toller Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 268

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