Vernon Head: 5 books

In 1990 onderneemt een onderzoeksteam van de University of Cambridge een expeditie naar nationaal park Nechisar in Ethiopië. Ze verzamelen zoogdieren, vogels, vlinders, libellen, reptielen én een vleugel van een nog te identificeren vogel. Argeloos wordt de vleugel opgeborgen in een bruine papieren...

The laughing dove and other poems is a collection that celebrates the natural world and our delicate place at the very edge of wilderness. Vernon RL Head sees like a birdwatcher and his unique arrangements of words shape a wondrous fact: Nature waits in the everyday: The freshness of a pavement-city-tree;...

The southernmost tip of Africa is home to a vast and shifting population of birds whose soaring movements and flocks are closely followed by a human flock: the entranced and captivated ornithologists, birdwatchers and seekers of wilderness.If the bird writings of Le Vaillant turned a generation of...

Part detective story, part love affair, and pure adventure storytelling at its best, a celebration of the thrill of exploration and the lure of wild places during the search for the elusive Nechisar Nightjar. In 1990, a group of Cambridge scientists arrived at the Plains of Nechisar in Ethiopia....

This time around we venture deep into the mysterious world of the Congo River, the Great Dancing Road.We meet Chrisnelt, a young Congolese boy who grows into manhood shaped by the vast leaves held in the branches of tropical forests, all the while battling a ravaged world of globalised greed and death....