The Dun Cow Rib : A Very Natural Childhood

Author(s): John Lister-Kaye

Nature

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.


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Review: John Lister-Kaye is Scotland's high priest of nature writing; it's charming and moving to wander along with him . . . The Dun Cow Rib is a loving book * * The Times * * I should love to pay a visit to and shake this fine author by the hand * * Mail on Sunday * * A wise and affectionate celebration of Britain's natural landscape * * The Week * * Utterly charming and captivating * * The Sunday Times * * Excellent * * The Scotsman * * In this moving autobiography by Scotland's foremost wildlife writer . . . it's when describing the lost countryside of his earliest years that he's without equal * * Country Life * * Escape into the joyous childhood of John Lister-Kaye * * Daily Express * * Lister-Kaye sometimes writes like the long-lost sixth member of the Famous Five * * Herald * * No one writes more movingly, or with such transporting poetic skill about encounters with wild creatures -- HELEN MACDONALD, author of H is for Hawk A great naturalist -- CHRIS PACKHAM

Sir John Lister-Kaye is one of Britain's best-known naturalists and conservationists. He is the author of nine books on wildlife and the environment and has lectured all over the world. He has served prominently in the RSPB, the Nature Conservancy Council, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Wildlife Trust. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE for services to nature conservation. He lives with his wife and family among the mountains of the Scottish Highlands, where he runs the world-famous Aigas Field Centre. www.lister-kaye.co.uk www.aigas.co.uk

General Fields

  • : 9781786891457
  • : Canongate Books Ltd
  • : Canongate Books Ltd
  • : 0.625
  • : August 2017
  • : 23.40 cmmm X 15.30 cmmm X 3.30 cmmm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : John Lister-Kaye
  • : Hardback
  • : Main
  • : en
  • : 333.72092
  • : 336