The Dun Cow Rib - A Very Natural Childhood

Shortlisted 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.

About the author

Sir John Lister-Kaye is one of Britain's best-known naturalists and conservationists. He is the author of eleven books on wildlife and the environment, including The Dun Cow Rib, shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, and Gods of the Morning, winner of the Richard Jefferies Award for Nature Writing. John has lectured on the natural environment all over the world. He has served prominently in the RSPB, the Nature Conservancy Council, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Wildlife Trust. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE for services to nature conservation and in 2016 he was awarded the Royal Scottish Geographical Society's Geddes Environment Medal. He lives with his wife and family among the mountains of the Scottish Highlands, where he runs the world-famous Aigas Field Centre.

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Product details

• Authors: John Lister-Kaye, Lister-Kaye John
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781786891471
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-147-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 130 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; NATURE / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Wildlife: general interest, Conservation of the environment, Biography and non-fiction prose, Nature and the natural world: general interest