Tim Dee

In The Running Sky, ornithologist Tim Dee maps his own observations and encounters over four decades of tracking birds from northern Shetland to south-west England via downtown Los Angeles and a tobacco farm in southern Zambia. He writes about near-global birds, including sparrows, starlings and ravens, and exotic species, such as the electrically coloured hummingbirds in California and broadbills...

Animal Vegetable Mineral celebrates the beauty and strangeness of the very early ‘infographics’, charts, and ordering systems devised in an age that transformed how we see and understand nature. These are the tools created by pioneering European naturalists, artists, scientists, housewives and explorers in the 18th and 19th centuries, in an attempt to better understand (and control) a teeming a...