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Skylarks With Rosie
Stephen Moss
As spring arrives, Stephen Moss's Somerset garden is awash with birdsong: chiffchaffs, wrens, robins and more. Overhead, buzzards soar, ravens tumble and the season gathers pace.
But this equinox is unlike any other. As the nation goes into lockdown, Stephen records the wildlife around his home, with his fox-red Labrador, Rosie, by his side. When old routines fall away, and blue skies are no longer crisscrossed by contrails, they discover the bumblebees, butterflies and birdsong on their local patch.
This evocative account underlines how a global crisis changed the way we relate to the natural world, giving us hope for the future. And it puts down a marker for a new normal: when, during that brief but unforgettable spring, nature gave us comfort, hope and joy.
But this equinox is unlike any other. As the nation goes into lockdown, Stephen records the wildlife around his home, with his fox-red Labrador, Rosie, by his side. When old routines fall away, and blue skies are no longer crisscrossed by contrails, they discover the bumblebees, butterflies and birdsong on their local patch.
This evocative account underlines how a global crisis changed the way we relate to the natural world, giving us hope for the future. And it puts down a marker for a new normal: when, during that brief but unforgettable spring, nature gave us comfort, hope and joy.
GENRE
Non-fiction; Nature; Wildlife
UK PUBLICATION
March 2021
Non-fiction; Nature; Wildlife
UK PUBLICATION
March 2021
Praise
"A beautiful memoir of life and wildlife from one of the UK's finest nature writers."
Chris Packham
Chris Packham
Also by Stephen Moss
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Other Books by Stephen Moss
- Highlands: Scotland's Wild Heart - (Bloomsbury Natural History)
- The Great British Year: Wildlife Through the Seasons - (Quercus)
- Wild Hares and Hummingbirds - (Vintage)
- Gardens Birds - (Collins)
- This Birding Life - (Aurum Press)
- Springwatch British Wild Life - (Collins)
- Natural History: 25 Extraordinary Species That Have Changed Our World - (John Murray)
- Tweet of the Day: A Year of Britain's Birds - (Saltyard Books)
- A Bird in the Bush - (Aurum Press)
- The Bumper Book of Nature - (Square Peg)
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