The Art of Flight

'Although there is much in this world that is incomprehensible, you can nevertheless discover a meaning as long as you have managed to limit your field of search.' Fredrik Sjoberg - collector, romantic, explorer - spends his life tracing the smallest details of the natural world. In these two beautifully wrought tales he meditates on the joy of little things, childhood memories, long-forgotten Swedish entomologists, earthworms, wine-making, the National Parks of the United States, the richness of life and the strange paths it leads us on. 'Digressive, discursive and delightful' Daily Telegraph 'A joy . . . Fredrik Sjoberg's best-selling memoir The Fly Trap marked him as a maestro of the episodic. Here, he completes a trilogy' Nature 'Thoroughly entertaining, beguilingly uncategorizable ... By his own admission Sjoberg has a "butterfly mind" ... What insures this approach against triviality is the author's patient alertness to pattern, to telling correspondence' Nat Segnit, The Times Literary Supplement

Product details

• Authors: Fredrik Sjberg, Fredrik Sj-berg, Fredrik Sjoberg, Fredrik Sjöberg, Fredrik Sjoeberg
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.06.2017
• EAN: 9780141980317
• ISBN: 978-0-14-198031-7
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; NATURE / Essays, Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists, Biography and non-fiction prose, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Biography: science, technology and medicine, National parks and nature reserves: general interest