{"product_id":"9781250448156","title":"Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate exploration of the lives of birds and their interactions with man, by a preeminent naturalist.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eClose to Adam Nicolson's home in Sussex, there is a forgotten field overrun by bracken and thicketed by brambles. It is the haunt of deer and many birds-nightingales, the occasional cuckoo, ravens, robins, owls, and in summer, the sweet-singing warblers that come north from Africa to breed in English woods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWanting to look and listen, to return to \"bird school\" and see what it might teach him, Nicolson built a small shed among the trees, a kind of man-sized birdhouse he calls an \"absorbatory,\" complete with nesting boxes and bird feeders. Cocooned inside season after season, he got to know the birds: where they nest, how they sing, how they mate and fight, what preys on them, what they are like as living things.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWoven through with philosophy, literature, science, and a sense of wonder, always conscious that this is an age in which the natural world is under siege, \u003ci\u003eBird School \u003c\/i\u003epulls back the curtain on seemingly ordinary birds, taking a long, careful, and concerned look at our relationship with the wild.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43631308767293,"sku":"9781250448156","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781250448156_p0.jpg?v=1789569063","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781250448156","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}