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Tim Dee follows gulls to rubbish dumps, meets gull-watchers, discovers ancient poets, Victorian novelists and learns how gulls continue to tell us how the wild can share our world, if we'd only listen.

In the light of these happy coincidences, Greenery recounts how Tim Dee tries to travel with the season and its migratory birds, making remarkable journeys to keep in step with the very best days of the year, the time of buds and blossoms and leafing, the time of song and nests and eggs.

In the light of these happy coincidences, Greenery recounts how Tim Dee tries to travel with the season and its migratory birds, making remarkable journeys to keep in step with the very best days of the year, the time of buds and blossoms and leafing, the time of song and nests and eggs.

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A collection of the best of British nature writing, commissioned by author of "The Running Sky" Tim Dee. Includes work by Adam Nicolson, Mark Cocker, Richard Mabey, Tony Harrison, Helen Macdonald and many others.

A collection of the best of British nature writing, newly commissioned by Tim Dee, author of "The Running Sky". Includes work by Adam Nicolson, Mark Cocker, Richard Mabey, Tony Harrison, Helen Macdonald and many others.

Tim Dee is a writer and BBC radio producer. His first book, The Running Sky (2009), described his first five birdwatching decades, and 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 including Four Fields, which was shortlisted for the 2014 Ondaatje Prize.

In this book, Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields spread around the world: their grasses, their hedges, their birds, their skies, and both their natural and human histories. These four fields-walkable, mappable, man-made, mowable, knowable, but also secretive, mysterious, wild, contested, and changing-play central roles in the sweeping panorama of world history and in the lives of individuals. In Dee's telling, a field is never just a...

A meditation on the relationship between man and grass, which looks at 4 real fields in 4 different continents, from the author of "The Running Sky". 'First-rate evocation of the natural world merges with an elegiac note in these rich stories of the soil.' "Independent

In this book, Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields spread around the world: their grasses, their hedges, their birds, their skies, and both their natural and human histories. These four fields-walkable, mappable, man-made, mowable, knowable, but also secretive, mysterious, wild, contested, and changing-play central roles in the sweeping panorama of world history and in the lives of individuals. In Dee's telling, a field is never just a...

Subtitled, "A Bird-Watching Life". Paperback edition of Dee's inspiring book about a lifetime of observing birds, which has already been acclaimed as a classic. 'It's beautifully written, extraordinarily vigilant, and very moving.' Andrew Motion