In "Sylvan Secrets: in bird-songs and books", Maurice Thompson invites you into a quiet, wondrous world where nature and literature mirror each other. Blending observations from the forest with reflections drawn from the written page, he follows the subtle messages hidden in bird-songs-calls that feel like both music and meaning. Each chapter offers a fresh encounter with the living outdoors, turning small moments of listening into larger insights about attention, patience, and the gentle intelligence of the natural world. The result is a book that reads like a walk through woods and libraries at once: intimate, lyrical, and designed to make you see-and hear-more than you did before. Sylvan Secrets - in bird-songs and books is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887.