{"product_id":"bird-school-adam-nicolson-9781250448156","title":"Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate exploration of the lives of birds and their interactions with man, by a preeminent naturalist. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eClose 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWanting to look and listen, to return to \"bird school\" and see what it might teach him, Nicolson built a small shed among the trees, a kind of man-sized birdhouse he calls an \"absorbatory,\" complete 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWoven through with philosophy, literature, science, and a sense of wonder, always conscious that this is an age in which the natural world is under siege, \u003ci\u003eBird School \u003c\/i\u003epulls back the curtain on seemingly ordinary birds, taking a long, careful, and concerned look at our relationship with the wild.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Nicolson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250448158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250448156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d","brand":"Adam Nicolson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48154246840575,"sku":"9781250448156","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a7be5cde-3e95-4b96-8ac4-e5551111c403.jpg?v=1770788879","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bird-school-adam-nicolson-9781250448156","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}