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Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780582106468
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Raven Seek Thy Brother written by Gavin Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Posnett
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399562818
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Strange Harvests written by Edward Posnett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Strange Harvests is] an impressive addition to the modern travelogue, painting some of the world's most remote terrain in visceral and sometimes breathtaking prose . . . an engrossing read." --NPR An original and magical map of our world and its riches, formed of the stories of the small-scale harvests of seven natural objects In this beguiling book, Edward Posnett journeys to some of the most far-flung locales on the planet to bring us seven wonders of the natural world--eiderdown, vicuña fiber, sea silk, vegetable ivory, civet coffee, guano, and edible birds' nests--that promise ways of using nature without damaging it. To the rest of the world these materials are mere commodities, but to their harvesters they are imbued with myth, tradition, folklore, and ritual, and form part of a shared identity and history. Strange Harvests follows the journeys of these uncommon products from some of the most remote areas of the world to its most populated urban centers, drawing on the voices of the people and little-known communities who harvest, process, and trade them. Blending history, travel writing, and interviews, Posnett sets these human stories against our changing economic and ecological landscape. What do they tell us about capitalism, global market forces, and overharvesting? How do local microeconomies survive in a hyperconnected world? Is it possible for us to live together with different species? Strange Harvests makes us see the world with wonder, curiosity, and new concern.
Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567924840
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Ring of Bright Water written by Gavin Maxwell and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume weaves together the Scottish otter stories from Gavin Maxwell's three non-fiction books, Ring of Bright Water (1960), The Rocks Remain (1963), and Raven Meet Thy Brother (1969). Maxwell was both an extraordinarily evocative writer and a highly unusual man. While touring the Iraqi marshes, he was captivated by an otter and became a devoted advocate of and spokesman for the species. He moved to a remote house in the Scottish highlands, co-habiting there with three otters and living an idyllic and isolated life – at least for a while. Fate, fame, and fire conspired against this paradise, and it, too, came to an end, though the journey was filled with incident and wonder. Maxwell was also talented as an artist, and his sinuous line drawings of these amphibious and engaging creatures, and the homes they occupied, illustrate his story. This book stands as a lasting tribute to a man, his work, and his passion. It was received and has endured as a classic for its portrait not only of otters but also of a man who endured heartaches and disappointments, whose life embodied both greatness and tragedy. He writes with rare eloquence about his birth, his devotion to the beloved Scottish highlands, and the wildlife he loved, while refusing to ignore the darker aspects of his nature and of nature in its larger sense.
Author : Philippa Bernard
Publisher : Shepheard-Walwyn
ISBN 13 : 0856833533
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (568 download)
Download or read book No End to Snowdrops written by Philippa Bernard and published by Shepheard-Walwyn. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the life of Kathleen Raine, who played an important role in the literary history of 20th-century England, this authorized biography tells how she developed from a small girl who only wanted to be a poet into a world-renowned poet and literary scholar. Starting with Kathleen’s struggle against the constrictions of her suburban childhood, the story of her life then continues with her exciting days at Girton College in the 1920s, where she became friends with many brilliant writers, artists, and scientists. She published Blake and Tradition, marking her as a leading William Blake scholar, and works on Coleridge, Yeats, and Thomas Taylor subsequently followed. Late in life, she founded the journal Temenos with the help of Prince Charles and was honored with the Queen’s Gold Medal for poetry. Using letters, documents, and personal interviews, the extensive research shows how a woman from a modest background used her talents and ambition, in spite of the problems that they may cause, to achieve worldwide distinction in her chosen field. This complete picture of a complex and brilliant individual sympathetically assesses Kathleen Raine's work while throwing a critical light on her private life, which was often at odds with her achievements.
Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781842625293
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Raven Seek They Brother written by Gavin Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gavin Maxwell lived at Camusfearna, facing Skye on the Sound of Sleat, for many years. This is a self-portrait full of anecdotes, descriptions of people and landscapes, birds and animals, times of comedy and tragedy."
Author : Lesley Kahney
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1528982797
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (289 download)
Download or read book A Spoondrift of Pearls written by Lesley Kahney and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lyrical collection of poems is inspired by the tiny island of Eilean Bàn, lying off the Isle of Skye, the final home to Gavin Maxwell, author of Ring of Bright Water. Lesley Kahney worked as a volunteer warden on the island for many months, observing the otters, seals and dolphins; absorbing the rhythms of the sea, clouds and nature. Vivid and rich in description, the poems capture the detail in nature. We catch glimpses of a vanishing Scotland with bothies, otters and selkies. Using metaphor, symbolism, and mythology, her poems connect with the history and mystery of the island. Whether depicting seagulls, primroses or seals; the themes of life, death, hope, and impermanence linger at the heart of the poems. With language that is both tender and raw, an emotional journey is taken through the ordinary and gilded with the microscope of the extraordinary. Here is an invitation to immerse yourself in the scent of sea mists and bluebells, and to give your attention in every moment to being part of nature. Whether a fan of Gavin Maxwell or not, these poems will speak to anyone who likes nature or to be by the sea.
Author : Dan Boothby
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 150980076X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Island of Dreams written by Dan Boothby and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan Boothby had been drifting for more than twenty years, without the pontoons of family, friends or a steady occupation. He was looking for but never finding the perfect place to land. Finally, unexpectedly, an opportunity presented itself. After a lifelong obsession with Gavin Maxwell's Ring of Bright Water trilogy, Boothby was given the chance to move to Maxwell's former home, a tiny island on the western seaboard of the Highlands of Scotland. Island of Dreams is about Boothby's time living there, and about the natural and human history that surrounded him; it's about the people he meets and the stories they tell, and about his engagement with this remote landscape, including the otters that inhabit it. Interspersed with Boothby's own story is a quest to better understand the mysterious Gavin Maxwell. Beautifully written and frequently leavened with a dry wit, Island of Dreams is a charming celebration of the particularities of place.
Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192870874
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Nature Prose written by Dominic Head and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature Prose seeks to explain the popularity and appeal of contemporary writing about nature. This book intervenes in key areas of contemporary debate about literature and the environment and explores the enduring appeal of writing about nature during an ecological crisis. Using a range of international examples, with a focus on late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century writing from Britain and the US, Dominic Head argues that nature writing contains formal effects which encapsulate our current ecological dilemma and offer a fresh resource for critical thinking. The environmental crisis has injected a fresh urgency into nature writing, along with a new piquancy for those readers seeking solace in the nonhuman, or for those looking to change their habits in the face of ecological catastrophe. However, behind this apparently strong match between the aims of nature writers and the desires of their readers, there is also a shared mood of radical uncertainty and insecurity. The treatment and construction of 'nature' in contemporary imaginative prose reveals some significant paradoxes beneath its dominant moods, moods which are usually earnest, sometimes celebratory, sometimes prophetic or cautionary. It is in these paradoxical moments that the contemporary ecological crisis is formally encoded, in a progressive development of ecological consciousness from the late 1950s onwards. Nature prose, fiction and nonfiction, is now contemporaneous with a defining time of crisis, while also being formally fashioned by that context. This is a mode of writing that emerges in a world in crisis, but which is also, in some ways, in crisis itself. With chapters on remoteness, exclusivity, abundance, and rarity, this book marks a turning point in how literary criticism engages with nature writing.
Author : Joni Mack Weed
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059518572X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Raven's Crowne written by Joni Mack Weed and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talented young architect David Gordon suffers severe migraine headaches and visits a psychologist to learn self-hypnosis for pain management. During his next brutal attack, he experiments with the new therapy, but something goes horribly wrong. He is transported through shared DNA into the mind of a 12th-century ancestor, likewise a migraineur. An avid genealogist, David knows the immediate future of these people. He decides to warn the youth that an ally will betray and kill his father to steal the fertile lands of Raven’s Crowne, located in the Scottish Borders. When the prophecy comes true, the boy and his brother seek sanctuary with a sympathetic Knights Templar preceptor with secrets of his own. The battle for justice involves a withered seer and her young protégé, a wily bishop with little tolerance for the old ways she favors, and the ailing King of Scots. Can bonds of honor and love defeat an implacable and devious enemy? David Gordon worries that contact with the remote past might affect the future, but he must obtain his ancestors’ help in returning to his own body and time—without leaving an indelible, and perhaps disastrous, mark on history.
Author : Keith Taylor
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
ISBN 13 : 191666847X
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (166 download)
Download or read book The Seasonal Eye written by Keith Taylor and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran environmental tutor and retired countryside ranger Keith Taylor seeks out spiritual and visual riches as he undertakes a year travelling to locations that have always intrigued him or may offer a fresh relationship with the outdoors, both through his own seasonally aware eyes and those of equally restless colleagues. Here, in The Seasonal Eye, he takes the reader through extreme parts of Britain, from the foot of an oak in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire, to the caves of a Nottingham border ice age sanctuary, our coastlines and nature reserves now managed by our county naturalists trusts and the varied terrains of the Cairngorms. This inquisitive man invites us to join him in his quests to discover how the compulsion to merge supposition with reality provides a clearer understanding of the precarious yet adaptive environmental issues that surround us all.
Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101160667
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Arabian Sands written by Wilfred Thesiger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life-"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to kill Christian infidels. His now-classic account is invaluable to understanding the modern Middle East.
Author : MJ Spickett
Publisher : Northern Gem Publishing
ISBN 13 : 199831801X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (983 download)
Download or read book Chaos Within: Book Three of Raven's Realm written by MJ Spickett and published by Northern Gem Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eli Hawke just can't catch a break. He's fought rival sorcerers, mystical beings, and even a possessed priestess intent on making him her new mate. Now a rival from his previous life has shown up. Friend or foe, Duncan Porter is a dangerous magick user with dark ties to Eli's past and possibly the cause of his past self's death. However, Porter's sudden arrival in Ravenwood isn't Eli's only problem. The Chaos demon he thought he vanquished when he defeated Dominique has returned and is intent on making Eli its new host. Cursed with horrific memories and visions from his childhood, Eli now has to face his past while struggling against the demon's attempts to take possession of his very body and soul. He can only rely on himself to defeat Chaos and save his friends from a warlock determined to rule the magickal world. If not, the world will fall into darkness, one city at a time...
Author : Joseph Dorris
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532045328
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Sheepeater written by Joseph Dorris and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-04-07 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the early 1860s, and twelve-year-old Erik Larson and his Swedish family are headed west in a wagon train from Minnesota to find a valley in pre-Idaho Territory. The family holds high hopes that their new home will provide the happiness they seekthat is, until a deadly illness strikes. When Eriks own mother becomes ill, the wagon master decides to push ahead, intent on outracing a blizzard. Unfortunately, winter arrives with a vengeance, and with his sister far ahead in another wagon, Erik is stranded with his parents. After his father experiences a fatal fall, Erik and his mother face a brutal winteralone on the windswept prairie. Erik is convinced that to survive he must seek help from the Sheepeater Indians. After he meets the Sheepeaters, he deals with prejudice and life-threatening danger and begins to question everything hes ever believed. Without the skills to hunt or fish, Erik must confront an agonizing choiceeither perish or abandon everything and become a member of the Sheepeaters. A poignant partnership soon unfolds between the Native Americans and a white man who has just one dreamto reunite with his sister.
Author : A.J. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784080853
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Red Prince written by A.J. Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the desert plains of Karesia and the icy wastes of Ranen, there once lay the kingdom of Ro. Its lands were fertile. Its men and women were prosperous. Their god – the One – was satisfied. But then the men of Ro grew unwatchful, and the armies of the south took their chance. Now the Seven Sisters rule the Kingdom, enslaving their people with sorcery of pleasure and blood. Soon, they will appoint a new god. The Long War rumbles on... but the Red Prince has yet to enter the field of battle. ALL THAT WAS DEAD WILL RISE. ALL THAT NOW LIVES WILL FALL...
Author : Miriam Darlington
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1959030493
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World written by Miriam Darlington and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Beguiling. The gentle and persistent search by Darlington sparkles.” —The Guardian A plan formed in my mind. I would explore the places in this land that hid my grail. I would spend a whole year or longer, if that’s what it took, wading through marshes, hiding between mossy rocks, paddling down rivers and swimming in sea lochs; recording my journey through the seasons as I searched for wild otters. Mysterious, graceful, and ever-clever, otters have captivated our imaginations, despite the fact that few people have encountered one in the wild. In Otter Country, celebrated nature writer Miriam Darlington captures the fascination she's had for these playful animals since childhood, and chronicles her immersive journey into their watery world. Over the course of a single year, Darlington takes readers on a winding expedition in pursuit of these elusive creatures—from her home in Devon, England, and through the wilds of Scotland, Wales, the Lake District, and the countryside of Cornwall. As she’s drawn deeper into wilder habitats, trekking through changing landscapes, seasons, and weather, Darlington meets biologists, conservationists, fishing and hunting enthusiasts, and poets—enriching her understanding, admiration, and awe of the wild otter. With each encounter, she reveals the scientific, environmental, and cultural importance of this creature and the places it calls home. Full of wonder, hope, and an abiding love for the natural world, Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World is a beautiful and captivating work of nature writing, pursuing one of nature’s most endearing and endlessly fascinating creatures.
Author : Nicola Chester
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472943694
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book RSPB Spotlight: Otters written by Nicola Chester and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Otters by Nicola Chester is an accessible and lively account of an intriguing and much-loved animal that, surprisingly, is still endangered and rarely seen despite a recent resurgence that has seen it expand from the remote countryside into our cities. Nicola's charming, informed text brings this elusive and exciting mammal into sharper focus revealing what an otter is, and how they live, feed, play and breed. Nicola reflects on how otters exist in our imaginations culturally and how that has changed over the years. She also examines the many challenges otters have faced, exposing what brought them to the brink of extinction, and explores the challenges we face in trying to find and watch otters in the wild. Each Spotlight title is carefully designed to introduce readers to the lives and behaviour of our favourite birds and mammals.
Author : Edoardo Albert
Publisher : Lion Fiction
ISBN 13 : 1782641173
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (826 download)
Download or read book Oswald: Return of the King written by Edoardo Albert and published by Lion Fiction. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Spirited and enjoyable' Nicholas Higham Oswald had found peace. But now he must fight for the throne. Northumbria lies undefended. Cadwallon and Penda, the kings of Gwynedd and Mercia, ravage the land. Oswald has a rightful claim to the throne, but he is sick of bloodshed, and in his heart he longs to lay down his sword and join the monks of Iona. However, the abbot of Iona does not need another monk; the abbot wants a warrior king to spread the new faith. He must reignite Oswald’s hunger for glory and renown, for gold and power and the homage of men. But, if he does, will it destroy Oswald?
