Jim Crumley

Seasons of Storm and Wonder (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From Jim Crumley, the pre-eminent Scottish nature-writer (Guardian), this landmark volume documents the extraordinary natural life of the Scottish Highlands and bears witness to the toll climate chaos is taking on its wildlife, habitats, and biodiversitylaying bare what is at stake for future generations.

In this landmark volume, Jim Crumley brings together a sweeping five-year quest to document the seasons and how he has seen them change. It explores the damage to the Earth's natural rhythms, but also relishes the enduring beauty and wonder of nature itself.

Drawing on his studies of each season over more than thirty years and reworking the volumes in his best-selling Seasons quartet, Crumley has created this unique account of our natural world today.

After a lifetime of immersing himself in the landscapes of Scotland and a handful of other northern countries, Crumley has amassed a body of knowledge and insight and a bank of memorable imagery.

Combining lyrical prose and passionate eloquence, he lays bare the impact of an increasingly chaotic climate and urges us all towards a more daring conservation vision that embraces everything from the mountain treeline to a second spring for the wolf.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Saraband
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781913393649
• Artikelnr.: 64146248

Autorenporträt

Jim Crumley has published more than forty books in the UK, but his work is only now coming to the attention of the wider world. He writes on the wildlife and wild landscape of his native Scotland, the impact of human activity on the natural world, species reintroduction, and climate change. His books have been nominated for prestigious awards including the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing and Scotland's National Book Awards. Crumley is also a poet and a widely published journalist.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Kathleen Jamie
Introduction: A Moment of Beauty
Part One: AUTUMN
A Child of Autumn
Autumn Leaves
The Far East
The Unexpected Eagle
Twenty-four Hours on Harris
Daylight on the Dream
An Audience with the Great Shepherd
A Storm Called Abigail
The Carse
Autumn into Winter
Edinburgh: Summertime in November
Part Two: WINTER
The White Bird Passes Through
White Walls Weeping
Sweet Medwin Water
The Narwhal in the Sky
Solstice
Wolf Moon
Hark the Herald Eagle
A Winter Diary
Insh Marshes: A Waterworld with No Half Measures
I Went Out to the Hazel Wood
Part Three: SPRING
First Syllables
Falcons of the Yellow Hill
The Backward Spring
The Mountaineering Badger
An Island Pilgrimage (1) – Mull and Iona
An Island Pilgrimage (2) – Lismore, the Great Garden
An Island Pilgrimage (3) - Lindisfarne, Islandshire
May in June
The Poetry of Mountain Flowers
The Sanctuary
Renaissance
Swan Song for a Backward Spring
Part Four: SUMMER
The Goddess of Small Things
St Kilda Summer, 1988
You Have Not Seen Her With My Eyes
She Is of the Woods and I Am Not
Solstice
Bass Notes
The Land of Havørn (1) – Under the Blue Mountain
The Land of Havørn (2) – Islands of Dreams
The Climate Imperative
The Accidental Kingfisher and Other Stories
Afterword Never Forget
Acknowledgements