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Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir
Chris Packham
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Description for Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir
Paperback. A memoir, in which, the author brings to life his childhood in the 70s, from his bedroom bursting with fox skulls, birds' eggs and sweaty jam jars, to his feral adventures. But pervading his story is the search for freedom, meaning and acceptance in a world that didn't understand him. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKES; 3JJPL; BM; JFFZ; PSVW6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Voted the UK's Favourite Nature Book The memoir that inspired Chris Packham's BBC documentary, Asperger's and Me Every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a real live Kestrel, my own real live Kestrel on my wrist! I felt like I'd climbed through a hole in heaven's fence. An introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at school, Chris Packham only felt at ease in the fields and ... Read more
Voted the UK's Favourite Nature Book The memoir that inspired Chris Packham's BBC documentary, Asperger's and Me Every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a real live Kestrel, my own real live Kestrel on my wrist! I felt like I'd climbed through a hole in heaven's fence. An introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at school, Chris Packham only felt at ease in the fields and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Ebury Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785033506
SKU
9781785033506
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Ref
99-1
About Chris Packham
TV presenter, photographer and conservationist Chris Packham is one of the nation's favourite naturalists. He is best known for the BAFTA-winning The Really Wild Show and fronting BBC's Springwatch and Autumnwatch. Packham is president of the British Trust for Ornithology, Hawk Conservancy Trust, the Hampshire Ornithological Society and the Bat Conservation Trust and vice-president of the RSPB and the Butterfly ... Read more
Reviews for Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar is like nothing else I know - a flickering vat of life itself. A brilliant and remarkable book.
Robert Macfarlane It's bold and beautiful, both raw and lyrical, and a rather special book.
Matt Haig
Independent
Incredibly powerful and moving.
Richard E. Grant A ... Read more
Robert Macfarlane It's bold and beautiful, both raw and lyrical, and a rather special book.
Matt Haig
Independent
Incredibly powerful and moving.
Richard E. Grant A ... Read more