Michel Munier. The Forest Bird.
MUNIER Michel.

Michel Munier. The Forest Bird.

Kobalann
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N° d'inventaire 26028
Format 15 x 21
Détails 256 p., paperback.
Publication Sapois, 2022
Etat Nine
ISBN 9791096728022
“As I turn the pages of my old notebooks, faithful observation companions crammed into a box for fifty years, emotions and memories resurface. Notes, sketches, arrows, and timetables follow one another. I dive back into the moments I lived in the forest, in the dead of night or on icy mornings, hidden under a fir tree, my ear attentive, when I wrote blindly in the depths of my sleeping bag. If all the beasts of this world have enchanted my existence, one of them in particular has led me on a path of awakening to the intelligence of the forest: the capercaillie.”
Michel Munier is a fervent defender of the old-growth forests of the Vosges. Since the 1970s, he has roamed the massif in all weathers and had a decisive encounter with this rare bird, with its discreet and mysterious habits. Eight hundred nights of watching to experience moments of grace and beauty...
“As I turn the pages of my old notebooks, faithful observation companions crammed into a box for fifty years, emotions and memories resurface. Notes, sketches, arrows, and timetables follow one another. I dive back into the moments I lived in the forest, in the dead of night or on icy mornings, hidden under a fir tree, my ear attentive, when I wrote blindly in the depths of my sleeping bag. If all the beasts of this world have enchanted my existence, one of them in particular has led me on a path of awakening to the intelligence of the forest: the capercaillie.”
Michel Munier is a fervent defender of the old-growth forests of the Vosges. Since the 1970s, he has roamed the massif in all weathers and had a decisive encounter with this rare bird, with its discreet and mysterious habits. Eight hundred nights of watching to experience moments of grace and beauty...