SuperNature

SuperNature is a field notebook for listening. Eira Lindqvist recorded the sounds of nature for forty years and wrote it all down in a notebook. The last pages were left unfinished, and the notebook has found its way to you. LISTEN FIRST Real animals can be heard in every landscape: a tawny owl in the Irati beech forest at night, the gibbons of Borneo at dawn, the ice of a lake in Norway. You don’t look for them with your eyes. Listen for where the call is coming from, move the frame over to it and take the photo. Catch it singing and well centered, and the photo is better. A NOTEBOOK THAT FILLS UP Each photo becomes a card drawn in ink, with the scientific name, the voice, where it lives, a curious fact and its conservation status. The facts on the cards have been checked against sources. And on every page there is someone who appears in no field guide: that one you discover yourself,…