Corvus: A Life With Birds
A memoir about sharing domestic life with wild birds. It combines natural and cultural history with a personal story told with wit, lyricism and affection.
A memoir about sharing domestic life with wild birds. It combines natural and cultural history with a personal story told with wit, lyricism and affection.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781847080806 (1847080804)
Publish date: 2009
Publisher: Granta Books
Pages no: 337
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
Science Nature,
Animals,
Birds
A memoir, of sorts, with threads of hard science, poetry, mythology and philosophy interwoven through tales of the corvids (and a couple of parrot-family birds) that have shared the author's life and home. The book was both hard to put down; engrossing, and at times a tiny bit tedious as Woolfson ...
Birds have arrived, the chosen and the unwanted, the damaged, the accidentally displaced from nests. They have stayed, or gone, leaving, all of them, their own determined avian imprint, entirely unrelated to size or species, and with each has been established an enduring sense of connection, one tha...
Corvus is the story of Esther Woolfson's relationship with a number of birds which have been brought to her for one reason or another, usually because they were ejected prematurely from their nests. In particular it focuses on two of them: Spike, a magpie, and Chicken a rook.The birds become part of...
An enjoyable and erudite memoir of Woolfson's life with birds. She does not confine her love, nor her writing, to the corvids- though they do make up the bulk of the book. Some of the gritty realities of sharing a space with very intelligent birds made me re-think my desire for a magpie- caching min...
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