The Club is delighted to organise a series of monthly (September-April) Club-wide online talks for members, in addition to local branch events. Not an SOC member? Find out more about membership and the many perks it offers, including access to the winter talks programme and the Club's quarterly journal Scottish Birds.
Adam Nicolson – Birds in the Hebrides and a Sussex wood; Q & A
Join us for what promises to be a very special evening with Adam Nicolson, acclaimed author and journalist whose work spans history, literature, landscape and the natural world. The evening will take the form at of a Q&A session and will be chaired by SOC President Ruth Briggs.
About the talk:
Adam reflects on a lifetime spent watching and learning about birds. He’ll talk about the Shiant Isles and his home in Sussex, where he has built a hide surrounded by the young oaks of an abandoned field.
About the speaker:
Adam Nicolson is the author of several books, including Sea Room on the Shiant Isles in the Hebrides, The Mighty Dead on Homer, The Seabird’s Cry, on the fate of the world’s seabirds, The Making of Poetry, on the year Wordsworth and Coleridge spent together in Somerset, Life Between the Tides, about some artificial rock pools he built on the Sound of Mull, and most recently Bird School on his getting to learn the nature and habits of the birds on his farm in Sussex. All of these books in their different ways explore our deep relationship to place and time. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has won the Wainwright Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award. His recent projects continue his fascination with ecology, culture and the ancient world. He lives in Sussex with his wife Sarah Raven.
Image: Puffins © Adam Nicolson
