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The Dun Cow Rib: A Very Natural Childhood

by John Lister-Kaye

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John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife. His memoir The Dun Cow Rib is the story of a boy’s awakening to the wonders of the natural world. 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. Threaded through his adventures - from moving to the Scottish Highlands to work with Gavin Maxwell, to founding the famous Aigas Field Centre - is an elegy to his remarkable mother, and a wise and affectionate celebration of Britain’s natural landscape.

Details

The Dun Cow Rib: A Very Natural Childhood
by John Lister-Kaye

ISBN
9781786891457

Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd

Binding
Hardback

Publication date
Aug. 17, 2017

Dimensions
24.0cm x 16.2cm x 3.3cm

Page count
368 pages