{"product_id":"the-art-of-flight-9780141980317","title":"The Art of Flight","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e''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.''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFredrik 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Digressive, discursive and delightful'' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A joy . . . Fredrik Sjöberg''s best-selling memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Fly Trap\u003c\/i\u003e marked him as a maestro of the episodic. Here, he completes a trilogy'' \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDigressive, discursive and delightful. -- Michael Kerr * Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA joy . . . Fredrik Sjöberg's best-selling memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Fly Trap\u003c\/i\u003e marked him as a maestro of the episodic. Here, he\u003cbr\u003ecompletes a trilogy.\u003c\/p\u003e * Nature *\u003cbr\u003eBy 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelightful,  at once informative and often humorously digressive . . . a  humane man  of wide-ranging curiosity, Sjöberg writes with infectious  passion.\u003c\/p\u003e * Independent *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017579266391,"sku":"9780141980317","price":26.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141980317.jpg?v=1750774007","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-art-of-flight-9780141980317","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}