Birds

An Anthology

Ed. Jaqueline Mitchell , Illus. Eric Daglish

New Hardback Illustrated

Postscript summary

Jaqueline Mitchell draws on historic material to present an anthology that demonstrates the rich heritage of writing about birds and birdwatching. Works connected by the seasons or particular habitats – swallows announcing the arrival of summer for Defoe, two kingfishers ‘upon a drooping bough’ in Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound – are interspersed with woodcuts by Eric Fitch Daglish and passages devoted to songbirds, flight, hawks and eagles, and human interactions with birds.

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