The Wise Hours: A Journey Into the Wild and Secret World of Owls

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"Unfailingly precise and lovingly poetic. . . . Nature writing of the first order." --The Wall Street Journal
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One minute I was sipping my tea by the window. There was nothing but the palest edge of grey light and a wisp of steam from my cup--and then a shadow swooped out of the air. With the lightest of scratches, as if the dawn light was solidifying into life, there it was, perched like an exclamation mark on the balcony: an owl, come to my home.

About the author

Miriam Darlington is the author of The Wise Hours: A Journey into the Wild and Secret World of Owls and contributes frequently to The Times, The Guardian, and The Ecologist. She lives in Devon, England.

Product details

• Authors: Miriam Darlington
• Publisher: Tin House Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2023
• EAN: 9781953534835
• ISBN: 978-1-953534-83-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 219 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 466 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries