Description
Book SynopsisShortlisted 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.
Trade ReviewUtterly 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 * *
