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  1. Farnboro John

    Fiction Books on Birds

    Coincidentally or not (and it peters out after a few books) Sharpe's NCO oppo Patrick Harper in the Peninsular War is also interested in birds and occasionally goes looking for one he thinks he hasn't seen before e.g. "the magpie with the blue tail". Maybe it's that thing about war being 10%...
  2. Farnboro John

    Fiction Books on Birds

    Not to mention Legolam the elf and Goodgulf Grayteeth the wizard. It's from the Harvard Lampoon and some of the jokes require American interpretation, but it is quite funny. It's also a lot shorter than LOTR. John
  3. Farnboro John

    Fiction Books on Birds

    Also Gandalf on top of Orthanc and Frodo and Sam on Mt Doom. Hence the eagle in Bored of the Rings being emblazoned with Deus Ex Machina Airlines..... :LOL: John
  4. Farnboro John

    Fiction Books on Birds

    Its the difference in weaponry though - look at a BHG's bill as a stabbing weapon on a long flexible neck, not to mention the manoeuvrability in three dimensions and it's fearsome, especially to an animal with two big front-mounted eyes and not much offensive weaponry besides incisors. John
  5. Farnboro John

    Fiction Books on Birds

    No indeed, though Dick's field sketch of the GND would mean an automatic rejection from a committee I think! Coot Club is terrific and don't leave out The Big Six in which George Owdon gets his come-uppance. John I can't do better than quote Richard Adams's description from when Bigwig and...
  6. Farnboro John

    Fiction Books on Birds

    Jonathan Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach is more of an allegorical celebration of flying than a book about birds (RB was a fairly celebrated pilot), but the more spiritual may "get it". Bill Oddie apparently didn't: "Anyway, Jonathan Livingstone what gull?" in BOLBBB - but he'd read it and...
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