It Started With The Starlings - A book by Chris Snow / Maps & Diagrams. Part atlas, bird book, picture book, story book

"Love this book very much… it’s very clever and beautifully crafted. It’s a treasure.” Chris Packham

“It’s a celebration of birds and buildings, winter, overheard conversations and stories, empty places and busy streets and above all – the feeling that, if you’re lucky and have time to notice, you get when you’ve forgotten everything for a moment - as you watch birds flying over, or look up at a tall building as the clouds rush by - that moment where everything feels good and makes sense.”

It Started With The Starlings has been a labour of love since 2004, when I produced the first prints that appear in these pages. I'm proud of how it feels to hold in my hand and to read and take in. 

The book is part atlas, part bird book, part picture book, part story book. 

I love an old atlas and had this in mind for this book, so it is quite a big book at just under 21x30cm and 124 pages. It's pretty heavy too which I'm strangely pleased about. The paper is lovely and thick and untreated so it has a nice matt feel.

The book is printed by a company who seem to have a really good approach to their environmental and sustainability responsibilities.

If you are outside the UK then you will need to add on the extra postage please using the options at the top of the page.

Your book will be sent carefully packaged in a strong cardboard book mailer.

Thanks

Chris