EPISODE · Sep 5, 2024 · 5 MIN
Birds as Individuals by Len Howard
from Top Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs · host Sterling Sporer
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778635 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Birds as Individuals Author: Len Howard Narrator: Jane Slavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 5, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Enter the secret lives of Britain's ordinary garden birds and the brilliant, unconventional woman who opened her doors to them. In the late 1930s, Len Howard packed up her life in London, bought a plot of land in Sussex and built herself a little house there. This was to be Bird Cottage, a place where the doors of the house were open to the birds of the garden – great tits, blue tits, robins, blackbirds, willow warblers and many others. Len lived the rest of her life alongside her bird neighbours, with some sleeping in her bedroom and many flitting in and out all day long. This is the book she wrote about the birds – a study not just of their behaviour but their individual personalities. We learn about their intelligence, emotional lives, and characters, their capacity for play and humour, the range of their song, their likes and dislikes, and their bond with Len. Enchanting, life-enriching, revelatory and completely original, this is a gorgeous evocation of a life lived in intimate contact with nature and a book about birds unlike any other. © Len Howard 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778635 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Birds as Individuals Author: Len Howard Narrator: Jane Slavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 5, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Enter the secret lives of Britain's ordinary garden birds and the brilliant, unconventional woman who opened her doors to them. In the late 1930s, Len Howard packed up her life in London, bought a plot of land in Sussex and built herself a little house there. This was to be Bird Cottage, a place where the doors of the house were open to the birds of the garden – great tits, blue tits, robins, blackbirds, willow warblers and many others. Len lived the rest of her life alongside her bird neighbours, with some sleeping in her bedroom and many flitting in and out all day long. This is the book she wrote about the birds – a study not just of their behaviour but their individual personalities. We learn about their intelligence, emotional lives, and characters, their capacity for play and humour, the range of their song, their likes and dislikes, and their bond with Len. Enchanting, life-enriching, revelatory and completely original, this is a gorgeous evocation of a life lived in intimate contact with nature and a book about birds unlike any other. © Len Howard 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024
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