The Year of Sitting Dangerously

My Garden Safari

Simon Barnes

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Simon & Schuster
19 July 2023

Biography; Autobiography: general; The countryside, country life

From the acclaimed author of Rewild Yourself comes a brilliant new book that reveals the natural joys to be discovered on your doorstep.

In the autumn of 2020, Simon Barnes should have been leading a safari in Zambia, but Covid restrictions meant his plans had to be put on hold. Instead, he embarked on the only voyage of discovery that was still open to him. He walked to a folding chair at the bottom of his garden, and sat down. His itinerary: to sit in that very same spot every day for a year and to see - and hear - what happened all around him. It would be a stationary garden safari; his year of sitting dangerously had begun.

For the next twelve months, he would watch as the world around him changed day by day. Gradually, he began to see his surroundings in a new way; by restricting himself, he opened up new horizons, growing even closer to a world he thought he already knew so well.

The Year of Sitting Dangerously is a wonderfully evocative read; it inspires the reader to pay closer attention to the marvels that surround us all, and is packed with handy tips to help bring nature even closer to us.

By: Simon Barnes
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 26mm
ISBN: 9781398518889
ISBN 10: 1398518883
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 19 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Simon Barnes is the author of many wild volumes, including the bestselling Bad Birdwatcher trilogy, Rewild Yourself, On The Marsh and The History of the World in 100 Animals. He is a council member of World Land Trust, trustee of Conservation South Luangwa and patron of Save the Rhino. In 2014, he was awarded the Rothschild Medal for services to conservation. He lives in Norfolk with his family and horses, where he manages several acres for wildlife. He was the Chief Sports Writer for The Times until 2014, having worked for the paper for 30 years.

Reviews for The Year of Sitting Dangerously: My Garden Safari

'Celebrates the glory of British nature' * Daily Express * 'Barnes, as did so many in those prison days of covid, found Nature restorative, yet the reader will be equally convinced by the need to restore her and to take more care to open their eyes and ears to British common-or-garden natural phenomena... You don't need to go to Africa for a safari' -- John Lewis-Stempel * Country Life *