Václav Cílek’s ‘To Breathe With Birds’ one of The Guardian’s best holiday reads of 2015

To Breathe With Birds was published this year by University of Pennsylvania Press and translated by Evan W. Mellander.

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Václav Cílek’s exploration of how human existence shapes and is shaped by a sense of place, was chosen by British travel writer, Robert Macfarlane, who had the following to say about his choice:

Václav Cílek is a Czech geologist who is also an exceptional essayist. Landscape is his inexhaustible subject both as scientist and writer, and To Breathe With Birds (Pennsylvania) – the first of his major books to be translated into English – works with both the long view and the closeup to explore subjects as various as asphalt, snowflakes and vigilance. It’s hard to resist a book with chapter titles that include “The Standard Central Bohemian Vision”, “Bees of the Invisible” and “The Masked Moose”.

The full article can be found here.

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