- Published: 15 June 2010
- ISBN: 9780099516491
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $32.99
The Running Sky
A Bird-Watching Life
- Published: 15 June 2010
- ISBN: 9780099516491
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $32.99
The Running Sky has the makings of a classic. It's beautifully written, extraordinarily vigilant, and very moving...as we read it, we learn a lot about ourselves as well as the fellow creatures flying through, over and around our own lives
Andrew Motion
A beautifully haunting and involving memoir. The writer's passion for birds becomes his way of expressing his whole relationship to landscape and history and family: unsentimental and urgently contemporary
Tessa Hadley
Thrillingly original memoir ... extraordinary
Lynn Barber, The Sunday Times
Its author has a forensic eye for detail and a gift for poetry...an intimate and erudite account... he is in the front rank of contributors to the literature of natural history
Daily Telegraph
Dee's extraordinary, beautifully written account of a life spent watching birds is a fine addition to the flourishing genre of British nature writing
Sunday Times
Lyrical...sure to become a genuine addition to the literature of birds
Daily Express
To write a book about a year's bird-watching as keenly observed as this, you have to be dedicated to the point of obsession; to write one as transcendent, you must be a poet
Christopher Somerville, The Times, Christmas Books
What makes his book wonderful is his passion... He captures the thrill and puzzlement of watching birds as I have never previously seen it captured
Sunday Herald
Serious and playful...creates a powerful and intensely poetic paean to what others have called the wonder of birds
Guardian
As unexpected as it is brilliant... A moving, powerful meditation on the natural world that envelops us, even in the heart of our cities
Helen Dunmore, Guardian Summer Reading
Haunting and passionate.... in graceful, poetic prose, compels us to look again and marvel at the 'storm of life over our heads
Huon Mallalieu, Country Life, Christmas round up