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People Pick of the Week "Unfailingly precise and lovingly poetic. . . . Nature writing of the first order." --The Wall Street Journal "A beautiful book, wise and sharp-eared as its subject." --Robert Macfarlane One minute I was sipping my tea by the window. There was nothing but the palest edge of grey light and a wisp of steam from my cup--and then a shadow swooped out of the air. With the lightest of scratches, as if the dawn light was solid...

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Eulen haben die menschliche Fantasie seit Jahrtausenden gefesselt. 13 Eulenarten gibt es in Europa - und die englische Naturforscherin Miriam Darlington hat es sich in den Kopf gesetzt, sie alle in der freien Wildbahn aufzuspüren. Von Frankreich bis Finnland reist sie und entdeckt die nachtaktiven Vögel, erzählt von ihren Gewohnheiten und ihren besonderen Fähigkeiten. Es ist ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit: Fast alle einheimischen Eulenarten stehe...

The sights and sounds of an owl's nocturnal flight - inaccessible to humans - are revealed enthrallingly in this BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.

This mesmerising book follows Darlington's journey from her home in Devon to the wilds of Scotland, in search of one of Britain's most elusive animals. During her journey she meets otter experts, members of the Environment Agency, conservationists, zoo keepers and even poets. This completely compelling book reveals her findings, and establishes Darlington as a prominent voice in a new generation of British nature writers. Beautifully illustrat...