Wintering: A Season With Geese - Couverture rigide

Rutt, Stephen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1783964545 ISBN 13 : 9781783964543

Editeur : Elliott & Thompson Limited, 2019

Synopsis

The new season begins. The geese return.

The arrival of huge flocks of geese in the UK is one of the most evocative and powerful harbingers of winter; a vast natural phenomenon to capture the imagination. So Stephen Rutt found when he moved to Dumfries in the autumn of 2018, coinciding with the migration of thousands of pink-footed geese who spend their winter in the Firth.Thus begins an extraordinary odyssey.

From his new surroundings in the north to the wide open spaces of his childhood home in the south, Stephen traces the lives and habits of the most common species of goose in the UK and explores the place they have in our culture, our history and, occasionally, on our festive table.

Wintering takes you on a vivid tour of the inbetween landscapes the geese inhabit, celebrating the short days, varied weathers and long nights of the season during which we share our home with these large, startling, garrulous and cooperative birds.

Praise for The Seafarers:

'A beautifully illuminating portrait of lives lived largely on the wing and at sea - Julian Hoffman, author of Irreplaceable and The Small Heart of Things

A beguiling, lyrical book, but also a poignant one - BBC Wildlife Magazine

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stephen Rutt is a birder, freelance nature writer and book reviewer whose work has appeared in Earthlines Magazine, Zoomorphic, The Harrier, Surfbirds, BirdGuides and The East Anglian Daily Times.

His first book, the award-winning The Seafarers, was born during the seven months he spent at the bird observatory on North Ronaldsay in the Orkneys. He lives in Dumfries

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Elliott & Thompson Limited
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1783964545
• ISBN 13: 9781783964543
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible