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From the acclaimed author ofRewild Yourself comes a brilliant new book that reveals the natural joys to be discovered on your doorstep

In the autumn of 2020 Simon Barnes should have been leading a safari in Zambia but Covid restrictions meant his plans had to be put on hold Instead he embarked on the only voyage of discovery that was still open to him He walked to a folding chair at the bottom of his garden and sat down His itinerary to sit in that very same spot every day for a year and to see and hear what happened all around him It would be a stationary garden safari his year of sitting dangerously had begun

For the next twelve months he would watch as the world around him changed day by day Gradually he began to see his surroundings in a new way by restricting himself he opened up new horizons growing even closer to a world he thought he already knew so well

The Year of Sitting Dangerously is a wonderfully evocative read it inspires the reader to pay closer attention to the marvels that surround us all and is packed with handy tips to help bring nature even closer to us