{"product_id":"the-wild-cards-robert-macfarlane","title":"The Wild Cards (Robert Macfarlane)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautiful companion set to the award-winning and internationally beloved phenomena, The Lost Words and The Lost Spells, adults and children alike will love receiving, sending and displaying The Wild Cards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Breathtaking and magical. Jackie Morris has created something that you could spend all day looking at' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris have made a thing of astonishing beauty' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscover and share the wonders of the wild world as seen in \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Words \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Spells\u003c\/i\u003e...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of 100 postcards features artwork and words from two beloved modern classics, in which Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane celebrate the creatures, trees and plants of nearby nature, from Acorn to Wren, by way of Curlew and Kingfisher, Silver Birch and Snow Hare, Goldfinch and Gorse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe front of each card bears one of Morris's Greenaway Medal-winning paintings; on the reverse, you will find an accompanying quotation from one of the spell-poems in the \u003ci\u003eLost\u003c\/i\u003e books, as well as an identification of the species shown on the card. The remaining space is left blank for you to fill in these wild cards with pen, pencil or paint - and then send them out into the world to make and renew connections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Macfarlane's \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e- and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling books include \u003ci\u003eIs a River Alive?\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnderland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLandmarks\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Old Ways\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Places\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMountains of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a book-length prose-poem, \u003ci\u003eNess\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, won prizes around the world, and been widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has also written operas, plays, albums, choral works, and films including \u003ci\u003eRiver\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMountain\u003c\/i\u003e, both narrated by Willem Dafoe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMacfarlane has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally bestselling books of nature-poetry and art, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Words\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Spells\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature, and in 2023 in Toronto he was the inaugural winner of the Weston International Award for a body of work in the field of non-fiction. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is presently working on a graphic novel re-telling of the \u003ci\u003eEpic of Gilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMacfarlane and Morris's latest project, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Birds, \u003c\/i\u003ewill be published in May 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Postcards, Englisch, 100 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65760111559005,"sku":"K091897104","price":14.6,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9189710400001A.jpg?v=1788213641","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-wild-cards-robert-macfarlane","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}