The Barley Bird: Notes on the Suffolk Nightingale

Richard Mabey

Published March 2010 80 page Hardback 220mm x 165mm with eleven full-page colour images

First prize winner in the Nature and Place category of the 2010 EDP/Jarrolds East Anglian Book Awards

Richard Mabey, described as "Britain's greatest living nature writer", explores the nightingale's links with Suffolk culture and landscape, and traces the bird’s course through myth, lore and tradition. He plumbs his subject for its fascinating literary and historical references, and opens the reader's ears to the bird itself and its extraordinary song, a hymn to survival. New images by Derrick Greaves accompany the text.