Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Published: 30/06/2022
ISBN: 9781787333208
Length: 336 Pages
Dimensions: 224mm x 31mm x 145mm
Weight: 722g
RRP: £16.99
Discover a powerful, evocative and urgent new young voice in nature writing.
'Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down, but a thread running through the pattern of my life.'
Meet Mya-Rose - otherwise known as 'Birdgirl'. Birder, environmentalist, diversity activist. To date she has seen over five thousand different types of bird: half the world's species.
Every single bird a treasure. Each sighting a small step in her family journey - a collective moment of joy and stillness. And each helping her to find her voice.
Since she was young, she has visited every continent to pursue her passion, seeing first-hand the inequality and reckless destruction we are inflicting on our fragile planet. And the simple, mindful act of looking for birds has made her ever-more determined to campaign for all our survival.
This is her story; a journey defined by her love for these extraordinary creatures. Because large or small, brown, patterned or jewelled, there is something about birds that makes us, even for just moments at a time, lift our eyes away from our lives and up to the skies.
Birdgirl is the perfect read for fans of H is for Hawk, Diary of a Young Naturalist, and any young or aspiring environmentalists.
Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Published: 30/06/2022
ISBN: 9781787333208
Length: 336 Pages
Dimensions: 224mm x 31mm x 145mm
Weight: 722g
RRP: £16.99
Lyrical, poignant and insightful.
Mya-Rose Craig has done more than anyone to promote birding and environmental issues to young people from all backgrounds - especially women of colour - and deserves our admiration and praise.
Mya-Rose's passion and dedication for the causes she believes in are testament to what we humans can achieve when we are at our best.
[Craig's] book reads like a cross between a travel diary, an ornithologist's guide and a thriller.