Authors: Esther Woolfson
Granta Publications, 12 Addison Avenue, London W11 4QR
First published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2008
Paperback edition published by Granta Books, 2009
This ebook edition published by Granta Books, 2010
Copyright © Esther Woolfson, 2008
Esther Woolfson has asserted her moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act,1988, to be identified as the author of this work
Illustrations copyright © Helen Macdonald, 2008
Quote from
Under the Sea Wind
by Rachel Carson (Copyright © Rachel L. Carson 1941) used by permission of the Estate of Rachel Carson and Pollinger Ltd.
Extract from Edwin Morgan’s ‘The Archaeopteryx’s Song’ (Edwin Morgan,
Collected Poems
Carcanet Press Limited, 1996) quoted by permission of Carcanet Press Limited.
Quotes from
The Appreciation of Birds
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989) and
Spring in Washington
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988) by Louis J. Halle used by permission of the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Lines from
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
reprinted by the permission of Russell and Volkening as agents for the author. Copyright © 1974 by Annie Dillard, renewed in 2002 by Annie Dillard.
Lines from
A Capote Reader
by Truman Capote © Truman Capote 1987. Permission granted by the Truman Capote Literary Trust, Alan U. Schwartz, Trustee.
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