The Dun Cow Rib: A Very Natural Childhood - Softcover

Sir John Lister-Kaye

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786891476 ISBN 13: 9781786891471

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2018

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2018

John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife.

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.

Warm, wise and full of wonder, The Dun Cow Rib is a captivating coming of age tale by one of the founding fathers of nature writing.

About this title

Review:

"Utterly charming and captivating" (The Sunday Times)

"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)

"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)

Book Description:

The story of a boy's adventures in the wonders of the natural world, from one of Britain's best-known naturalists and conservationists

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1786891476
• ISBN 13: 9781786891471
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336