The Art of Flight

'Although there is much in this world that is incomprehensible you can nevertheless discover a meaning as long as you have managed to limit your field of search.'Fredrik Sjöberg - collector romantic explorer - spends his life tracing the smallest details of the natural world. In these two beautifully wrought tales he meditates on the joy of little things childhood memories long-forgotten Swedish entomologists earthworms wine-making the National Parks of the United States the richness of life and the strange paths it leads us on. 'Digressive discursive and delightful' Daily Telegraph'A joy . . . Fredrik Sjöberg's best-selling memoir The Fly Trap marked him as a maestro of the episodic. Here he completes a trilogy' Nature'Thoroughly entertaining beguilingly uncategorizable ... By his own admission Sjöberg has a "butterfly mind" ... What insures this approach against triviality is the author's patient alertness to pattern to telling correspondence' Nat Segnit The Times Literary Supplement