The Dun Cow Rib
Author | : John Lister-Kaye |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2017-08-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781786891464 |
ISBN-13 | : 1786891468 |
Rating | : 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its creatures. His memoir The Dun Cow Rib is the story of a boy's awakening to the wonders of the natural world. Lister-Kaye's joyous childhood holidays - spent scrambling through hedges and ditches after birds and small beasts, keeping pigeons in the loft and tracking foxes around the edge of the garden - were the perfect apprenticeship for his two lifelong passions: exploring the wonders of nature, and writing about them. Threaded through his adventures - from moving to the Scottish Highlands to work with Gavin Maxwell, to founding the famous Aigas Field Centre - is an elegy to his remarkable mother, and a wise and affectionate celebration of Britain's natural landscape.