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A Last Wild Place is Tomkies' bestseller - the book for which he will be remembered more than for any of the other eight he has written about the remote Highland lochside cottage and its surrounding hills where he has lived alone for twenty years without electricity, gas, telephone or postal service, studying the wildlife. Here the one-time Hollywood journalist gives a remarkable picture of the whole cycle of nature through the seasons in a harsh environment of unrivalled beauty. The Duke of Edinburgh wrote in the Good Book Guide: 'The North West of Scotland is indeed a wild place, but to the observant eye of the author it is full of wonderful life. This book does more than describe a piece of wild country and its population of wild animals: it gives a vivid picture of someone wholly absorbed by his subject.'
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`His phenomenal knowledge of wildlife is not limited to mammals and birds but includes trees, wild plants and insects, particularly butterflies. His chapters on deer in winter are particularly poignant... He is an extraordinary naturalist and his tales are made all the more interesting by the presence of his constant companion, his experienced German shepherd dog Moobli'. Wildlife Detective, The blog of Alan Stewart -------------------- `...presents a truly remarkable picture of the whole cycle of nature around him... ...Impressively informed and informative, "A Last Wild Place" is a simply fascinating and engaging read from cover to cover and an enduring testimonial to a life time of observation and study of the natural world. Midwest Book Review
About the Author
Mike Tomkies discovered his passion for wildlife as a boy, but was forced by circumstances to abandon it. He served with the Coldstream Guards in the Middle East and then became a successful Fleet Street journalist, later freelancing in Paris, Madrid and Rome, and was a Hollywood columnist until he emigrated to the Canadian wilds, where he wrote Alone in the Wilderness. On returning to Britain, he lived first in a derelict croft on an island off the Scottish coast, then settled in the remote lochside cottage he called Wildernesse. There he wrote nine books about the wildlife in the Western Highlands. In 1988 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0224022199
- ISBN 13 9780224022194
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages250
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