Adam Nicolson

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

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

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be given your own remote islands Thirty years ago it happened to Adam Nicolson Aged 21 Nicolson inherited the Shiants three lonely Hebridean islands set in a dangerous sea off the Isle of Lewis With only a stone bothy for accommodation and half a million puffins for company he found himself in charge of one of the most beautiful places on earth The story of the Shiants is a story of birds and boats hermits and fishermen witchcraft and catastrophe and Nicolson expertly weaves these elements into his own tale of seclusion on the Shiants to create a stirring celebration of island life

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2018WINNER OF THE JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING 2017The full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers The book looks at the pattern of their lives their habitats the threats they face and the passions they inspire beautifully illustrated by Kate Boxer Seabirds are master navigators thriving in the most demanding environment on earth In this masterly book drawing on all the most recent research Adam Nicolson follows them to the coasts and islands of Scotland Ireland Iceland Norway and the Americas Beautifully illustrated by Kate Boxer The Seabird s Cry is a celebration of the wonders of the only creatures at home in the air on land and on the sea It also carries a warning the number of seabirds has dropped by two thirds since 1950 Extinction stalks the ocean and there is a danger that the grand cry of a seabird colony will this century become little but a memory

En diez capítulos, cada uno dedicado a un ave diferente, El reclamo delas aves marinas recorre sus caminos oceánicos, fusionandolos conocimientos tradicionales con todo lo que la ciencia modernaha llegado a saber sobre ellas: el funcionamiento de sus cuerpos,su deslumbrante pericia en la navegacion, su capacidad para olfatearel camino hacia la pesca y el retorno a su hogar y como comprenden elfuncionamiento de los vientos en los que viven.El libro se centra en las islas Shiant, un grupo de islas localizadasen el estrecho de El Minch, al este de la isla Harris en las HebridasExteriores, en Escocia, y a traves del Atlantico, por la costa oeste deIrlanda, hasta St Kilda, Orkney, Shetland, las Islas Feroe, Islandiay Noruega y hasta la costa este de America, las Malvinas, Georgia delSur, las Canarias y las Azores, llegando a lo largoy ancho del oceano.Este libro es un canto a la belleza de la vida en las alas, pero a medidaque vamos comprendiendo a las aves marinas, se va desencadenandouna tragedia mundial. Su numero esta cayendo en picado, disminuyendocasi un setenta por ciento en los ultimos sesenta años.De las diez aves de este libro, siete estan en declive. La extincionacecha a los oceanos y existe el peligro de que el gran grito deuna colonia de aves marinas, rodando por las bahias y promontoriosde altas latitudes, se convierta este siglo en un mero recuerdo.

Nominado al prestigioso premio Samuel Johnson de ensayo. Amor, destino, épica, muerte... ¿Qué nos queda aún por aprender de Homero? Adam Nicolson nos brinda la oportunidad de conocer a un Homero de