The call of the red-winged blackbird : essays on the common and extraordinary

"'Nearly sixty years of life, with all of its diversities and social pleasure, its joys and sorrows, successes and failures, a whole changing theatre cast of characters, some still loved and on the stage, others long since slipped into the darkened wings, and I remain most entranced by the simple glories of a fruit tree and a songbird. Why should it be so?' In this lush collection of essays Tim Bowling picks up the common questions, and beauties,...