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Book Synopsis''Although there is much in this world that is incomprehensible, you can nevertheless discover a meaning as long as you have managed to limit your field of search.''
Fredrik Sjöberg - collector, romantic, explorer - spends his life tracing the smallest details of the natural world. In these two beautifully wrought tales he meditates on the joy of little things, childhood memories, long-forgotten Swedish entomologists, earthworms, wine-making, the National Parks of the United States, the richness of life and the strange paths it leads us on.
''Digressive, discursive and delightful'' Daily Telegraph
''A joy . . . Fredrik Sjöberg''s best-selling memoir The Fly Trap marked him as a maestro of the episodic. Here, he completes a trilogy'' Nature
''Thoroughly entertaining, beguilingly uncategorizable ... By his own admission Sjöberg has a butterfly mind ... What insures this approach against triviality is the author''s patient alertn
Trade Review
Digressive, discursive and delightful. -- Michael Kerr * Telegraph *
A joy . . . Fredrik Sjöberg's best-selling memoir The Fly Trap marked him as a maestro of the episodic. Here, he
completes a trilogy.
* Nature *
By his own admission Sjöberg has a "butterfly mind"; the effect of his narrative excursions amounts to a sort of Sebald-lite, albeit without the fictional element. What insures this approach against triviality is the author's patient alertness to pattern, to telling correspondence. -- Nat Segnit * Times Literary Supplement *
Delightful, at once informative and often humorously digressive . . . a humane man of wide-ranging curiosity, Sjöberg writes with infectious passion.
* Independent *
