Grassling - Elizabeth Burnett Join The Book of the Owl

The Book of the Owl takes readers beyond an admiration of this species to an in depth exploration of their background

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it considers the life-cycle of the oak

Grassling - Elizabeth Burnett Join The Book of the OwlWhat fills my lungs is wider than breath could be. It is a place and a language torn, matted and melded; flowered and chiming with bones. That breath is that place and until I get there I will not really be breathing. Spurred on by her father's declining health and inspired by the history he once wrote of his small Devon village, Elizabeth Jane Burnett delves through layers of memory, language and natural history to tell a powerful story of how the