A Shadow Above: The Fall and Rise of the Raven - Hardcover

Shute, Joe

 
9781472940285: A Shadow Above: The Fall and Rise of the Raven
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1472940288 ISBN 13: 9781472940285
Publisher: Bloomsbury Natural History, 2018

Synopsis

For millennia, we have tried to explain ourselves using the raven as a symbol. It occupies a unique place in British history and has left an indelible mark on our cultural landscape.

The raven's hulking black shape has come to represent many things: death, all-seeing power, the underworld, and a wildness that remains deep within us. Legend has it that the fate of the nation rests upon the raven, and should the resident birds ever leave the Tower of London then the entire kingdom will fall.

While so much of our wildlife is vanishing, ravens are returning to their former habitats after centuries of exile, moving back from their outposts at the very edge of the country, to the city streets from which they once scavenged the bodies of the dead.

In A Shadow Above, Joe Shute follows ravens across their new hunting grounds, examining our complicated and challenging relationship with these birds. He meets people who live alongside the raven in conflict and peace, unpicks their fierce intelligence, and ponders what the raven's successful return might come to symbolise for humans in the dark times we now inhabit.

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About the Author

Joe Shute is an author and journalist with a passion for the natural world. He writes features for The Daily Telegraph and is the newspaper's long-standing Saturday 'Weather Watch' columnist. He is currently a post-graduate researcher funded by the Leverhulme Unit for the Design of Cities of the Future (LUDeC) at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Joe previously worked as a trainee journalist on the Halifax Evening Courier and the Yorkshire Post as its crime correspondent. His other books include Forecast: A Diary of the Lost Seasons and A Shadow Above: The Fall and Rise of the Raven. He lives in Sheffield with his wife (and rats).

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Natural History
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1472940288
ISBN 13 
9781472940285
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272

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