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The Dun Cow Rib

John Lister-Kaye

From Shelf: Earth Day

A fascinating and powerful memoir from one of the founding fathers of nature writing and one of Britain's best-known naturalists and conservationists

John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife. 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.

Format:
Hardback
Pages:
368
Publisher:
Canongate Books
ISBN:
9781786891457
Published Date:
17/8/2017
Dimensions:
240mm x 162mm x 33mm
Weight:
625g
Category:
Memoirs

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RRP: £20

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9781786891457

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