Waiting for the Albino Dunnock
- Author Rosamond Richardson
- Narrator Jane Whittenshaw
- Publisher Orion
- Run Time 10 hours and 31 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Memoirs, Wildlife: birds and birdwatching: general interest, Zoology: birds (ornithology).
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What to expect
Personal and elegiac in tone, the writing is an unusual combination of prose poems based on the actual experience of seeing a specific bird for the first time, woven with elements of science and wisdom traditions, ornithology (and its punning counterpart ornitheology), mythology and philosophy, taxonomy and history, literature and folklore, conveying the wider picture of what it means to be human in relationship to nature. WAITING FOR THE ALBINO DUNNOCK explores the degree to which wildness is embedded in the human psyche and how beauty is central to our mental and emotional wellbeing, while highlighting the careless damage we are inflicting on the natural world.
Read by Jane Whittenshaw
(p) 2017 Orion Publishing Group
Critics Review
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A beautiful book
Tim Birkhead, author of BIRD SENSE -
Glorious, beautifully written pilgrimage into the soaring world of birds … The prose is sublime, and so is the intelligence behind it
DAILY MAIL -
Rare, charming and unforgettable … Her prose has the clarity, poise, precision and transcendent beauty of someone who was brought up reading the classics and knows the joy of finding the right words. Every sentence is perfect
THE OLDIE -
Beautifully written
CHOICE magazine -
[Richardson] writes…with a poetic lyricism
SUNDAY EXPRESS -
This exquisite depiction of bird-watching as personal pilgrimage is written with passion, poetry and the
THE LADY
freshness of a newcomer: ‘the real voyage of discovery consists in…seeing with new eyes’
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