Reviews seem to be like buses – two have come along together.
Jeremy Mynott in the Times Literary Supplement reviews Remarkable Birds and The Meaning of Birds by Simon Barnes.
Here are some of the nice things he says about Remarkable Birds:
‘Packed with all manner of interesting facts, expertly presented and all tending to enlarge and enrich our appreciation of the wonderful variety of the world’s 10,000 birds.‘.
‘Each profile is short, but full of intriguing and up-to-date information about the species in question, beautifully illustrated with prints and drawings drawn largely from the British Library collections.‘
‘Both Barnes and Avery are committed conservationists and have shaped their books accordingly. Their narratives are consistently entertaining and eye-opening, but they all point, in the end, to the need to value better, and therefore protect, this remarkable class of creatures from the many threats they face in the modern world.’
