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The extent to which birdwatching can improve your wellbeing is weighed in on from a position of profound personal experience. Introduction from Chris Packham.
About the author
Joe Harkness has been writing a Bird Therapy blog for the last three years. In 2017, he had articles published in The Curlew and Birdwatch magazine as well as recording three ‘tweets of the day’ for BBC Radio 4. He is employed as a Special Educational Needs coordinator and has worked in the youth sector for nine years. He lives in Norfolk.
Summary
A guide to how birdwatching can improve your wellbeing, featuring an introduction from Chris Packham
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'Fabulously direct and truthful, filled with energy but devoid of self-pity . . . I was impressed and enchanted. Highly recommended' Stephen Fry
'Succeeds – triumphantly – in articulating with great honesty what it is like to suffer with a mental illness, and in providing strategies for coping' Mail on Sunday. ‘A manifesto for transformation, Bird Therapy is inclusive, unpretentious and evangelical in the best way’ Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley
'This is a generous, honest and gently inspirational book, a touching exploration of the solace we find in neighbourhood nature. Beginners at birdwatching and beginners at life – all of us – can learn something from Joe Harkness’ Patrick Barkham, author of The Butterfly Isles
‘An antidote to the stress and confusion of modern life. This is an honest, warm and positive guide to decompression... one bird at a time’ Nick Baker, naturalist and TV presenter
‘Nature cannot cure you, but reading this beautiful and honest book will take you very close indeed to the best things going’ Tim Dee, author of The Running Sky
'Gripping, funny, moving and at times brutally honest ... One of the most important books I have read for a long time’ Stephen Moss, author and naturalist
'Bird Therapy is a real tonic; a prescription, a guide and a hopeful way to soar’ Nicola Chester, nature writer and the RSPB’s longest-running female columnist
