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Nightingale

by Bethan Roberts
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/02/2022
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A melodious paean to the natural history and symbolic meaning of the most prized, poetized, and mythologized of songbirds.

The nightingale has a unique place in cultural history: the most prized of songbirds, it has inspired more poems than any other creature, and it is also the most mythologized of birds. Nightingale juxtaposes the bird of poetry, music, myth, and lore with the living bird of wood and scrubland, unpicking the entangled relationship between them. Covering a huge range of poets, musicians, artists, nature writers, and natural historians--from Aristotle, Keats, and Vera Lynn to Bob Dylan--Nightingale charts our fascination through history with this nondescript yet melodious little brown bird. It also documents the nightingale's disappearance from British breeding grounds and the implications this has for nightingale conservation.

ISBN:
9781789144741
9781789144741
Category:
Wildlife: birds & birdwatching
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-02-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Reaktion Books, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
190.5x133.35x20.32mm
Weight:
0.37kg
Bethan Roberts

Bethan Roberts was born in Oxford and grew up in nearby Abingdon. Her first novel The Pools won a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers' Award. Her second novel The Good Plain Cook, published in 2008, was serialized on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime and was chosen as one of Time Out's books of the year. Her third novel, My Policeman, was picked as the 'City Reads' book for Brighton. Her most recent novel is Mother Island, winner of a Jerwood/Fiction Uncovered Prize 2015. Bethan lives in Brighton with her family.

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