Robert Macfarlane | The Book of Birds

The King's English is thrilled to welcome, Robert Macfarlane to Utah to celebrate his new book, The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss. Robert will be in conversation with Tim Brown, the President and CEO of the Tracy Aviary.

This is a ticketed event and will take place at The Tracy Aviary. Your ticket includes a signed copy of The Book of Birds.

Extra copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event. If you cannot make this event, signed copies may be ordered from our website.

If you cannot attend, you must pick up your book (if included with ticket) at the The King's English Bookshop within 30 days of the event. We can ship that book to you for an additional charge of $7; please call the store to arrange that.

About the book:

The Book of Birds is a field guide with a difference: It shows readers not just how to identify birds, but also how to identify with them. Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris conjure the unique spirit of nearly fifty once-common species: avocet to yellowhammer, kestrel to kingfisher, skylark to nightingale. In lyrical and incantatory essays, Macfarlane describes each bird’s habits and habitats, their patterns of flight and patterns of song, how they hunt or fish or scavenge or gather, how they nest and raise their chicks, the myths that attend them, the threats that shadow them—and how their lives intersect with our own. On every page we encounter Morris’s exhilarating artwork, painted from life in watercolor and gold leaf, and animated with an extraordinary attention to detail. The Book of Birds is a love letter to the thrilling variety and mysteries of birdlife, and a clarion call to halt the rapid depletion of our skies.

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