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'A feast for mind and soul, a treasure trove of insights into the enigmatic and enchanting world of the birds we share our lives with but barely notice. I have learnt so much. Every page is a thrill. Bird School has opened my eyes' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding Step into the hide for a glorious new encounter with the British wild Close to Adam Nicolson's home in Sussex, there is a forgotten field overrun by bracken and thicketed by brambles. It is the haunt of deer and many birds - nightingales, the occasional cuckoo, ravens, robins, owls and in summer the sweet-singing warblers that come north from Africa to breed in English woods. This gorgeous book charts his attempt to encounter birds, to engage with a marvellous layer of life he had previously almost ignored. He wanted to look and listen, to return to 'bird school' and see what it might teach him. He built a small shed amongst the trees with nesting boxes and bird feeders. Cocooned inside, season after season, he got to know the birds: where they nest, how they sing, how they mate and fight, what preys on them, what they are like as living things. Beautifully written and woven through with philosophy, literature, science and a sense of wonder, always conscious that that this is an age in which the natural world is under siege, Bird School pulls back the curtain on seemingly ordinary birds, taking a long, careful and concerned look at our relationship with the wild.

Embarking on a captivating journey through the British wilderness, this work by acclaimed nature writer Adam Nicolson explores the beauty and intricacies of the natural world. With a blend of personal reflection and rich storytelling, Nicolson invites readers to appreciate the landscapes and wildlife that define Britain, showcasing his deep connection to nature and the environment.

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?

An seinem einundzwanzigsten Geburtstag erhält Adam Nicolson von seinem Vater, dem Sohn von Vita Sackville-West und Sir Harold Nicolson, eine kleine schottische Inselgruppe: die Shiants. Gelegen an den äußeren Hebriden fallen ihre steilen schwarzen Klippen fünfhundert Meter tief in den kalten, nach mystischen, halb menschlichen Kreaturen benannten »Strom der Blauen Männer«. Robben tummeln sich an ihren Ufern. Hummer suchen sich ihren Weg durch Steine und Tang. Und am Himmel drehen Tausende von Papageientauchern ihre Runden. Auf diesen Inseln mit ihrer jahrhundertealten Vergangenheit, die von ruhelosen Geistern und Geschichten über alte Schätze heimgesucht werden, bietet sich Nicolson ein Ort der Zuflucht und der Einsamkeit. Sie werden ihm zur Heimat und offenbaren ihm »das Freiheitsgefühl, das einen auf einer wasserumtosten Insel durchflutet«. In leidenschaftlicher, zum Funkeln gebrachter Sprache zelebriert Seeraum die Landschaft dieses windgepeitschten, bezaubernd schönen Anwesens und teilt mit uns die Wunder der natürlichen Welt in all ihren Facetten und Paradoxien.

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022 'A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things ... Nicolson is unique as a writer ... I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL Few places are as familiar as the shore - and few as full of mystery and surprise.

'A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things ... Nicolson is unique as a writer ... I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL'Miraculous ... An utterly fascinating glimpse of a watery world we only thought we knew' PHILIP HOAREFew places are as familiar as the shore - and few as full of mystery and surprise.

Seit Adam Nicolson als Junge die unbesiedelten Shiant Islands vor der schottischen Küste besuchte, ist er von Seevögeln fasziniert. Die Inselgruppe ist bekannt für ihre markanten Klippen, die große Kolonien von Papageientauchern, Trottellummen und Dreizehenmöwen beherbergen. Viele Seevögel legen zeit ihres Lebens unglaubliche Distanzen zurück, immer einem inneren Kompass folgend, der sich nach Signalen aus der Natur richtet, manche so subtil wie der Geruch von meilenweit entferntem Plankton. Seit jeher haben diese Vögel die Fantasie der Menschen beflügelt. Sie sind die einzige Art der Schöpfung, die auf dem Meer, in der Luft und an Land zu Hause ist. Bisher konnte der Mensch sie immer nur an ihren Brutplätzen beobachten, weshalb sie lange als Botschafter einer mythischen Welt jenseits des Horizonts galten. Erst in jüngster Zeit bekommen wir eine Vorstellung davon, wie es ihnen ergeht, wenn sie draußen auf See sind ... So wie Seevögel Grenzgänger zwischen erlebten und imaginären Welten sind, überwindet Adam Nicolson die Kluft zwischen Wissenschaft und Literatur. In seinem faszinierenden, brillant erzählten Band zeigt er, dass Seevögel unsere Mitspieler im Drama des Lebens sind – und zugleich Metaphern für das, was wir sind und sein können.

Set against the backdrop of England's tumultuous history from the 1520s to 1650, this book chronicles the Pembroke family's rise and struggles through three generations. It explores their complex relationship with the English Crown, highlighting themes of ambition, resistance, and the moral ambiguities of power. Acclaimed historian Adam Nicolson presents a vivid narrative filled with rich detail, examining the intricate dynamics of loyalty, corruption, and privilege in a time of significant change and conflict.

Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before in this new book by Adam Nicolson, brimming with poetry, art and nature writing. Proof that poetry can change the world. It is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came The Ancient Mariner and ̀Kubla Khan', as well as Coleridge's unmatched hymns to friendship and fatherhood, Wordsworth's revolutionary verses in Lyrical Ballads and the greatness of ̀Tintern Abbey', his paean to the unity of soul and cosmos, love and understanding. Bestselling and award-winning writer Adam Nicolson tells the story, almost day by day, of the year in the late 1790s that Coleridge, Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy and an ever-shifting cast of friends, dependants and acolytes spent together in the Quantock Hills in Somerset. To a degree never shown before, The Making of Poetry explores the idea that these poems came from this place, and that only by experiencing the physical circumstances of the year, in all weathers and all seasons, at night and at dawn, in sunlit reverie and moonlit walks, can the genesis of the poetry start to be understood. What emerges is a portrait of these great figures as young people, troubled, ambitious, dreaming of a vision of wholeness, knowing they had greatness in them but still in urgent search of the paths towards it. The poetry they made was not from settled conclusions but from the adventure on which they were all embarked, seeing what they wrote as a way of stripping away all the dead matter, exfoliating consciousness, penetrating its depths. Poetry for them was not an ornament for civilisation but a challenge to it, a means of remaking the world