{"product_id":"how-to-fly-taking-wing-with-birds-bats-insects-and-humans","title":"How to Fly: Taking Wing with Birds, Bats, Insects and Humans","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Barnes makes you look and listen with new eyes and ears'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSTEPHEN FRY\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Quite simply, a writer in a class of his own'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCLARE BALDING\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Barnes describes the wonders of nature with infectious enthusiasm'\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Barnes is a passionate writer on wildlife'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDAILY MAIL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFlight fascinates us. We thrill to birds, we adore butterflies, we're baffled by bats and we can hardly believe in pterodactyls. We worship angels and we compare love, religious ecstasy and artistic achievement to flight. We love the idea of flight so much we invented machines that at last allowed us to fly. Many died to make human flight possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Fly, bestselling writer Simon Barnes brings together all aspects of aerial life - evolution, technology, mythology, religion, nature and imagination - in a celebration of the wonders of flight. Barnes looks at the physics of flying and how flight has evolved quite separately four times over (or five, if we count humans). He examines how these creatures do it: from the nocturnal agility of bats and the bees that beat their wings 230 times per second, to the extinct reptile quetzalcoatlus with its 10-metre wingspan and the Arctic terns that travel 75,000km every year. He also explores how the great poets, mystics, saints, musicians and athletes have all, in their different ways, succeeded in getting high and getting us high.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSweeping in scope and packed with fresh insights, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Fly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is a book that sets free the eagle within us all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59880105476441,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0832\/2940\/9625\/files\/howtofly.jpg?v=1791887300","url":"https:\/\/natureboundbooks.co.uk\/products\/how-to-fly-taking-wing-with-birds-bats-insects-and-humans","provider":"Nature Bound Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}