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A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
Longlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 2018
A Guardian Book of the Year 2018

The owl has captivated the human imagination for millennia; as a predator, messenger, emblem of wisdom or portent of doom. Owl Sense tells a new story.

On 'owl walks' with her teenage son, Benji, Miriam Darlington begins a quest to identify every European species of this elusive bird. From Britain she travels to Spain, France, Serbia and Finland, and to the frosted borders of the Arctic. Along the way, however, Benji succumbs to a mysterious and disabling illness, and Miriam's endeavour soon becomes entangled with the search for his cure. Bringing the strangeness and magnificence of owls to life, Owl Sense is a book about wildness in nature but also in the unpredictable course of our human lives.

Owl Sense

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    A Paperback / softback by Miriam Darlington

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      Publisher Guardian Faber Publishing
      Published 3 January 2019
      ISBN-13 9781783350759
      978-1783350759
      ISBN-10 178335075X
      Also in:
      Natural History Wildlife: birds and birdwatching: general interest

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
      Longlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 2018
      A Guardian Book of the Year 2018

      The owl has captivated the human imagination for millennia; as a predator, messenger, emblem of wisdom or portent of doom. Owl Sense tells a new story.

      On 'owl walks' with her teenage son, Benji, Miriam Darlington begins a quest to identify every European species of this elusive bird. From Britain she travels to Spain, France, Serbia and Finland, and to the frosted borders of the Arctic. Along the way, however, Benji succumbs to a mysterious and disabling illness, and Miriam's endeavour soon becomes entangled with the search for his cure. Bringing the strangeness and magnificence of owls to life, Owl Sense is a book about wildness in nature but also in the unpredictable course of our human lives.

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