A Last Wild Place - Softcover

Tomkies, Mike

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0224043552 ISBN 13: 9780224043557

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1996

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Mike Tomkie tells the story of his life in a remote Highland lochside cottage where he lived alone for 20 years without electricity, gas, telephone or postal service, studying the wildlife.

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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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