BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • The Year of Sitting Dangerously: My Garden Safari

    (By Simon Barnes)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 24 MB (24,083 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 626 times
    Last checked 11 Hour ago!
    Author Simon Barnes
    “Book Descriptions: From the acclaimed author of Rewild Yourself comes a brilliant new book that reveals the natural joys to be discovered on your doorstep.



    In the autumn of 2020, Simon Barnes should have been leading a safari in Zambia, but Covid restrictions meant his plans had to be put on hold. Instead, he embarked on the only voyage of discovery that was still open to him. He walked to a folding chair at the bottom of his garden, and sat down. His to sit in that very same spot every day for a year and to see - and hear - what happened all around him. It would be a stationary garden safari; his year of sitting dangerously had begun.

    For the next twelve months, he would watch as the world around him changed day by day. Gradually, he began to see his surroundings in a new way; by restricting himself, he opened up new horizons, growing even closer to a world he thought he already knew so well.

    The Year of Sitting Dangerously is a wonderfully evocative read; it inspires the reader to pay closer attention to the marvels that surround us all, and is packed with handy tips to help bring nature even closer to us.

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    Be a Birder: The Joy of Birdwatching and How to Get Started

    ★★★★★

    Hamza Yassin

    Book 1

    Raising Hare: A Memoir

    ★★★★★

    Chloe Dalton

    Book 1

    One Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate

    ★★★★★

    Kate Bradbury

    Book 1

    Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

    ★★★★★

    John Lewis-Stempel

    Book 1

    Wayfarer: Love, loss and life on Britain's ancient paths

    ★★★★★

    Phoebe Smith

    Book 1

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

    ★★★★★

    Miriam Darlington

    Book 1

    The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers

    ★★★★★

    Adam Nicolson

    Book 1

    Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter

    ★★★★★

    Kat Hill

    Book 1

    Wilding

    ★★★★★

    Isabella Tree

    Book 1

    A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects

    ★★★★★

    Sally Coulthard

    Book 1

    The Gardener

    ★★★★★

    Salley Vickers

    Book 1

    Journey to the River Sea

    ★★★★★

    Eva Ibbotson

    Book 1

    Windswept

    ★★★★★

    Annie Worsley

    Book 1

    Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

    ★★★★★

    Simon Kuper