Lev Parikian

This is the miracle of flight as you’ve never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the wing. A bird flits overhead. It’s an everyday occurrence, repeated hundreds, thousands, millions of times daily by creatures across the world. It’s something so normal, so entirely taken for granted, that sometimes we forget how extraordinary it is. But take that...

The miracle of flight as you’ve never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the wing. A bird flits overhead. It’s something so normal, so entirely taken for granted, that sometimes we forget how incredible it is. In this exhilarating new book, meet fourteen flying species, each with their own extraordinary story to tell about life on earth....

Across seventy-two short chapters and twelve months, writer and nature lover Lev Parikian charts the changes that each of Japan’s ancient microseasons (of just a few days each) bring to his local British patch – garden, streets, park, and wild cemetery. From the birth of spring (risshun) in early February to ‘the greater cold’ (daikan) in late January, Lev draws...