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Hardback. Condizione: Good. ?The Company of Owls is a book filled with wonder, wisdom, and warmth ? Her moving and meaningful observations and lyrical prose will stick with you for a long time.??Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an OctopusLonglisted for the 2025 Wainwright Prize in Nature WritingAn observant, lyrical memoir exploring what owls can teach us about nature, chronic illness, and ourselves?so long as we are quiet enough to listen. ?Let me tell you about my neighbors, the owls,? writes Polly Atkin in this love letter to the clutch of tawny owlets residing near her home in the heart of England?s Lake District. Circumscribed by a chronic illness to her cottage and the surrounding area, she turns to the trees and the animals among them for companionship?especially the owl siblings who surprise and delight her. As Atkin watches them grow from curious fledglings into sleek raptors, she contemplates the act of survival and our place within it. When should a human intervene? When should nature take its course? What do the owls know that we do not? The owls encourage her to think differently about solitude and community, individuality and belonging, rest and retreat. And with them as her companions, she weighs the many types of company we keep?in our relationships, in the darkness, and in our entanglement with the digital world that connects us across continents.A resounding call to find joy in unexpected places, The Company of Owls is a love letter to the world, teaching us to listen amid clamor and noise.…

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. ?The Company of Owls is a book filled with wonder, wisdom, and warmth ? Her moving and meaningful observations and lyrical prose will stick with you for a long time.??Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an OctopusLonglisted for the 2025 Wainwright Prize in Nature WritingAn observant, lyrical memoir exploring what owls can teach us about nature, chronic illness, and ourselves?so long as we are quiet enough to listen. ?Let me tell you about my neighbors, the owls,? writes Polly Atkin in this love letter to the clutch of tawny owlets residing near her home in the heart of England?s Lake District. Circumscribed by a chronic illness to her cottage and the surrounding area, she turns to the trees and the animals among them for companionship?especially the owl siblings who surprise and delight her. As Atkin watches them grow from curious fledglings into sleek raptors, she contemplates the act of survival and our place within it. When should a human intervene? When should nature take its course? What do the owls know that we do not? The owls encourage her to think differently about solitude and community, individuality and belonging, rest and retreat. And with them as her companions, she weighs the many types of company we keep?in our relationships, in the darkness, and in our entanglement with the digital world that connects us across continents.A resounding call to find joy in unexpected places, The Company of Owls is a love letter to the world, teaching us to listen amid clamor and noise.…

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Paperback. Condizione: New.

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paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. ?The Company of Owls is a book filled with wonder, wisdom, and warmth ? Her moving and meaningful observations and lyrical prose will stick with you for a long time.??Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an OctopusLonglisted for the 2025 Wainwright Prize in Nature WritingAn observant, lyrical memoir exploring what owls can teach us about nature, chronic illness, and ourselves?so long as we are quiet enough to listen. ?Let me tell you about my neighbors, the owls,? writes Polly Atkin in this love letter to the clutch of tawny owlets residing near her home in the heart of England?s Lake District. Circumscribed by a chronic illness to her cottage and the surrounding area, she turns to the trees and the animals among them for companionship?especially the owl siblings who surprise and delight her. As Atkin watches them grow from curious fledglings into sleek raptors, she contemplates the act of survival and our place within it. When should a human intervene? When should nature take its course? What do the owls know that we do not? The owls encourage her to think differently about solitude and community, individuality and belonging, rest and retreat. And with them as her companions, she weighs the many types of company we keep?in our relationships, in the darkness, and in our entanglement with the digital world that connects us across continents.A resounding call to find joy in unexpected places, The Company of Owls is a love letter to the world, teaching us to listen amid clamor and noise.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. ?The Company of Owls is a book filled with wonder, wisdom, and warmth ? Her moving and meaningful observations and lyrical prose will stick with you for a long time.??Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an OctopusLonglisted for the 2025 Wainwright Prize in Nature WritingAn observant, lyrical memoir exploring what owls can teach us about nature, chronic illness, and ourselves?so long as we are quiet enough to listen. ?Let me tell you about my neighbors, the owls,? writes Polly Atkin in this love letter to the clutch of tawny owlets residing near her home in the heart of England?s Lake District. Circumscribed by a chronic illness to her cottage and the surrounding area, she turns to the trees and the animals among them for companionship?especially the owl siblings who surprise and delight her. As Atkin watches them grow from curious fledglings into sleek raptors, she contemplates the act of survival and our place within it. When should a human intervene? When should nature take its course? What do the owls know that we do not? The owls encourage her to think differently about solitude and community, individuality and belonging, rest and retreat. And with them as her companions, she weighs the many types of company we keep?in our relationships, in the darkness, and in our entanglement with the digital world that connects us across continents.A resounding call to find joy in unexpected places, The Company of Owls is a love letter to the world, teaching us to listen amid clamor and noise.…

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Companions of Nature: A Lake Poets Anthology. Book.

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Paperback. Condizione: New. To swim is an act of attention: to the self, and to everything beyond it.Follow poet and nature writer Polly Atkin as she swims through the turning year in the rivers, lakes and tarns of the English Lake District, in this lyrical ode to the uplifting power of water. This is a love story between a person and a place. It is a story of acceptance, persistence and finding joy in the everyday, as eight years of outdoor swimming through every season deepen Atkin's knowledge and understanding of both the landscape she calls home and her disabled body.Each month in the water reveals how a life lived with pain can be as rich, rewarding and full of delight as any other. Atkin swims for the sheer pleasure of it, showing how that pleasure may be found in every season, even by those who find the cold neither thrilling nor soothing. She reminds us of the quiet power of noticing the lives alongside ours - birds, plants and people. And through paying attention to herself and to the living world around her, she finds swimming becomes a transformative force, a kind of natural magic through which the extraordinary is revealed day after day, year after year.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This addition to our series of UK regional titles brings the drama and beauty of the Lake District landscape into glorious focus. We encounter dry-stone walls, sublime heights, lakes (of course) and experience an evening dip in the cooling waters of a tarn. The selection wouldn't be complete without a poem by Wordsworth who captures the tranquillity of a quiet valley in a moment of typically blissful contemplation: A soft eye-music of slow-waving boughs, Powerful almost as vocal harmony stay the wanderer's steps and soothe his thoughts. - from 'Aira Force Valley' by William Wordsworth The double-edged sword of tourism is also present in a sonnet which imagines what this most famous of Lakes Poets would make of the world of postcards and car parks. The poem's conclusion is a reminder that the sublime will outlive any human interference. Polly Atkin is a poet who lives and works in the Lake District. Poems by Polly Atkin, Rachael Bates, Paul Farley, Katie Hale, Matthew Hollis, Eileen Pun, Tom Rawling, Reshma Ruia, William Wordsworth and David Wright. Cover illustration by Mark A Pearce. Includes one poetry pamphlet, eco-envelope and co-ordinating bookmark with space for your own personal message. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. "In her contemplative memoir, Polly Atkin encourages everyone, especially those with chronic illnesses, to look beyond their own history and see the beauty in their world." --The Washington Post "Defiant and dazzling." --Freya Bromley, author of The Tidal Year  "Essential reading." --Jessica J. Lee, author of Turning "Long before I knew I was sick, I knew I was breakable." After years of unexplained health problems, Polly Atkin's perception of her body was rendered fluid and disjointed. When she was finally diagnosed with two chronic conditions in her thirties, she began to piece together what had been happening to her- all the misdiagnoses, the fractures, the dislocations, the bone-crushing exhaustion, and on top of it all, not being believed by the very people who were meant to listen. Some of Us Just Fall combines memoir, pathography and nature writing to trace a journey through illness- a journey which led Atkins to her cottage in England's Lake District, where every day she turns to the lakes and land that inspire poets old and new to help manage, and purportedly cure, her chronic illness. Join her as she delves into shimmering waters, selkie dreams, and the history of her two genetic conditions to uncover and learn from how they were managed (or not) in times gone by. Beautiful and deeply personal, Some of Us Just Fall is essential reading on the cost of medical misogyny and gaslighting, the illusion of 'the nature cure', and the dangers of ableism both systematic and internalized. This is not a book about getting better. This is a book about living better with illness. …

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

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Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Swimming the Seasons: A Freshwater Almanac. Book.

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Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.