The Screaming Sky - In Pursuit of swifts

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The poetry of swifts is in their facts, and this book draws deeply on the latest extraordinary discoveries.... Show more

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Author	Charles Foster
Language	English
ISBN	9781915068002
Publisher	Little Toller Books
Pages	183
Size	197 x 128 mm
Format	Softcover
Images	black and white illustrations
Year published	2021

Swifts live in perpetual summer. They inhabit the air like nothing else on the planet. They watched the continents shuffle to their present positions and the mammals evolve. They are not ours, though we like to claim them. They defy all our categories and present no passports as they surf the winds across the world. They sleep in the air, their wings controlled by an alert half-brain. Yet for all their adaptability and longevity swifts have recently been added to the UK’s Red List of endangered birds.

This is a radical new look at the common swift ̶ a numerous but profoundly uncommon bird ̶ by Charles Foster, author of the New York Times bestseller Being a Beast. Foster follows the swifts through the world, manically, lyrically, yet scientifically. The poetry of swifts is in their facts, and this book, the paperback of the bestselling, Wainwright shortlisted monograph, draws deeply on the latest extraordinary discoveries. The Screaming Sky is illustrated throughout by Jonathan Pomroy.

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