The Long Spring

by Laurence Rose Bloomsbury £18.34

Every year, two billion birds cross the Mediterranean to breed in Europe. Naturalist Laurence Rose follows their epic journeys north from “the sweat of Africa to the ice of the high Arctic”. Travelling by train, bus, boat, bicycle and on foot, he encounters new arrivals in each of the countries that he passes through, from hoopoes in southern Spain to bluethroats in the north of Norway. Along the way, Rose also considers the impact that changes in climate and conservation policy have had on migration. Pete DommettWildlife writer