{"product_id":"the-running-sky-9780099516491","title":"The Running Sky","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Dee \u003c\/b\u003ehas been a birdwatcher all his life. His first book, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRunning\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSky\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), described his first five birdwatching decades. In the same year he collaborated with the poet Simon Armitage on the anthology \u003ci\u003eThe Poetry of Birds\u003c\/i\u003e. Since then he has written and edited several critically acclaimed books: \u003ci\u003eFour\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFields\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), a study of modern pastoral, which was shortlisted for the 2014 Ondaatje Prize; \u003ci\u003eGround\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWork\u003c\/i\u003e (as editor, 2017), a collection of new commissioned writing on place by contemporary writers; and most recently, \u003ci\u003eLandfill\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), a modern naturejunk monograph on gulls and rubbish. He left the BBC in 2018 having worked as a radio producer for nearly thirty years. He lives in three places: in a flat in inner-city Bristol, in a cottage on the edge of the Cambridgeshire Fens, and in the last-but-one house from the south western tip of Africa, at the Cape of Good Hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Running Sky\u003c\/i\u003e has the makings of a classic\u003c\/b\u003e. It's beautifully written, extraordinarily vigilant, and very moving...as we read it, we learn a lot about ourselves as well as the fellow creatures flying through, over and around our own lives -- Andrew Motion\u003cbr\u003eIts author has a forensic eye for detail and a gift for poetry...an intimate and erudite account... he \u003cb\u003eis in the front rank of contributors to the literature of natural history\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eSerious and playful...creates a \u003cb\u003epowerful and intensely poetic\u003c\/b\u003e paean to what others have called the wonder of birds * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eA beautifully haunting and involving memoir. The writer's passion for birds becomes his way of expressing his whole relationship to landscape and history and family: unsentimental and urgently contemporary -- Tessa Hadley\u003cbr\u003eDee's extraordinary, beautifully written account of a life spent watching birds is a fine addition to the flourishing genre of British nature writing * Sunday Times *","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138092237143,"sku":"9780099516491","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099516491.jpg?v=1751917948","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-running-sky-9780099516491","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}