Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

George: A Magpie Memoir

Frieda Hughes
3.81/5 (1189 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
“ He was a hectic, unprincipled bird, but it was impossible not to love him.” From poet and painter Frieda Hughes, a memoir of love, obsession , and feathers.

When Frieda Hughes moved to the depths of the Welsh countryside, she was expecting to take on a few planting a garden, painting, writing her poetry column for The Times (London), and possibly even breathing new life into her ailing marriage. But instead, she found herself rescuing a baby magpie, the sole survivor of a nest destroyed in a storm—and embarking on an obsession that would change the course of her life.

As the magpie, George, grows from a shrieking scrap of feathers and bones into an intelligent, unruly companion, Frieda finds herself captivated—and apprehensive of what will happen when the time comes to finally set him free.

With irresistible humor and heart, Frieda invites us along on her unlikely journey toward joy and connection in the wake of sadness and loss; a journey that began with saving a tiny wild creature and ended with her being saved in return.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1668016508
ISBN13:
9781668016503
kindle Asin:
B0BHTML2DP

George: A Magpie Memoir

Frieda Hughes
3.81/5 (1189 ratings)
Read Download
“ He was a hectic, unprincipled bird, but it was impossible not to love him.” From poet and painter Frieda Hughes, a memoir of love, obsession , and feathers.

When Frieda Hughes moved to the depths of the Welsh countryside, she was expecting to take on a few planting a garden, painting, writing her poetry column for The Times (London), and possibly even breathing new life into her ailing marriage. But instead, she found herself rescuing a baby magpie, the sole survivor of a nest destroyed in a storm—and embarking on an obsession that would change the course of her life.

As the magpie, George, grows from a shrieking scrap of feathers and bones into an intelligent, unruly companion, Frieda finds herself captivated—and apprehensive of what will happen when the time comes to finally set him free.

With irresistible humor and heart, Frieda invites us along on her unlikely journey toward joy and connection in the wake of sadness and loss; a journey that began with saving a tiny wild creature and ended with her being saved in return.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1668016508
ISBN13:
9781668016503
kindle Asin:
B0BHTML2DP

More Books

Raising Hare: A Memoir

Chloe Dalton

Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

Christian Cooper

Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe

Carl Safina

The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom

Jane Smiley

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation

Emily Van Duyne

Mayor of the Tenderloin: Del Seymour's Journey from Living on the Streets to Fighting Homelessness in San Francisco

Alison Owings

The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness

Kenn Kaufman

Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

Sy Montgomery

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

Jennifer Ackerman

Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness

Lyanda Lynn Haupt