The Birds of the Air: Parables of Loneliness and Unloneliness

Very Good used hardcover in dust jacket. Slight creasing and fading to edges of DJ.  Previous owner's blind stamp on title page.

The Birds of the Air offers lyrical and moving, but also direct and precise parables on the varying nature of human loneliness.  The author, Father David Drake-Brockman, uses birds common and wonderful - from the aasvogel to the zosterops, from the duck to the swan - to represent in different stories, settings and meditations, both the curious and the familiar ways of people in their solitariness, sometimes only too conscious, sometimes quite unconscious.  His is a memorable book for not only does he write simply and vividly;  he also has a visionary talent for observing and searching the human heart with loving exactness.