Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
A Memoir
$43.13
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2017
Summary
A beautifully told, deeply personal growing-up memoir from the BBC presenter about life, death, love and nature.
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781785033506 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1785033506 |
| Author: | Chris Packham |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Imprint: | Ebury Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 263g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
“This book is courageous, disturbing, original and at times brilliant.” –Simon Barnes
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 beautiful, riveting and disturbing read. * Guardian *
This book is courageous, disturbing, original and at times brilliant. – Simon Barnes
Richly lyrical and deeply confessional… a triumph of rhapsodic writing that can lift the heart. * Radio Times *
A magical portrait – Lemn Sissay * BBC R4 Midweek *
Extraordinarily vivid and utterly unique…surely destined to be some of the most talked-about nature writing of the year * BBC Countryfile Magazine *
Astonishing… brilliantly written – Craig McLean * Radio Times *
Fierce, disturbing and surprising * Sunday Times *
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 Hawk Conservancy Trust, the Hampshire Ornithological Society, and the Bat Conservation Trust and vice-president of the RSPB and the Butterfly Conservation. In 2011, he was awarded the British Trust for Ornithology’s Dilys Breese Medal for his ‘outstanding work in promoting science to new audiences’, and in 2016 he won the Wildscreen Panda Award for Outstanding Achievement, for his contribution to wildlife filmmaking.
Packham’s partner, Charlotte Corney, owns the Isle of Wight Zoo, and his step-daughter is studying zoology at Liverpool University. He lives in the New Forest.
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