The Company of Swans

This beautiful record, on fine paper, is Crumley's homage to these noble creatures, but it is also an elegy, a love song to one swan whose silent tragedy he watched from one season to the next. 'A small mound on white feathers lies on a tussock of grass made grey by a Highland winter. It is all the monument there will ever be to the life of a swan.'With these words, and those that follow, Jim Crumley has ensured that there will be a more enduring witness to the life of this swan, and of all swans, than that pyre of white feathers.Crumley watches, year in year out, as a pair of mute swans struggles, against the odds, to raise young on a wild patch of lock. But the pen starts to lose her eggs to predators; and the cob begins to disappear for longer and longer periods. Until comes the day when a third swan, stronger and younger than the first pen, appears at the other end of the loch.This journal of a swan-watcher, as he calls himself, is an elegy to these noble creatures; and most poignantly it is a memorial to one swan, whose silent drama he has recorded.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Crumley
• Assisted by: Harry Brockway (Illustration), Brockway Harry (Illustration)
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781787300620
• ISBN: 978-1-78730-062-0
• No. of pages: 48
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 5 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; NATURE / Animals / Birds, Wildlife: birds & birdwatching, Wildlife: birds and birdwatching: general interest