Bearded Tit

von Rory McGrath

352 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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Bearded Tit is Rory McGrath's story of life among birds. From a Cornish boyhood wandering gorse-tipped cliffs listening to the song of the yellowhammer with his imaginary girlfriend or drawing gravity-defying jackdaws in class when he should have been applying himself to physics to quoting the Latin names of birds to give himself a fighting chance of a future with JJ - the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.As an adult or what passes for one Rory recounts becoming a card-carrying birdwatcher observing his first skylark - peerless king of the summer sky - while stoned; his repeatedly failed attempts to get up at the crack of dawn like the real twitchers; and his flawed bid to educate his utterly unreconstructed drinking mate Danny in the ways of birding.Rory's tale is a thoroughly educational occasionally lyrical and highly amusing romp through the hidden byways of birdwatching and more importantly a love story you'll never forget.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Biografien und Sachliteratur Allgemein
• ISBN: 9780091924607
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.02.2009
• Größe: 198 x 126 mm
• Verlag: Ebury Press