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Zusatztext Ansell has the rare skill of combining vividly the intimacy of detail and the astonishing grandeur of this North West coastline of Scotland. Through his keen eyes we look again at the familiar with a sense of wondrous revelation Informationen zum Autor Neil Ansell was an award-winning television journalist with the BBC and a long standing newspaper journalist. He is the author of Deep Country, Deer Island and The Last Wilderness which was shortlisted for the 2018 Wainwright Golden Beer and Highland Book Prizes. He has two daughters and lives in Scotland. Klappentext 'I am standing on a little wooden footbridge looking down at the sluggish waters of the Beaulieu River. Further downstream towards the sea, the river is tidal and looks like a proper river; here in its upper reaches it is no more than a stream, winding lazily through the woods, narrow enough that in places a fallen tree is enough to make a natural crossing. Overhanging the banks beside the bridge are blackthorns in peak bloom, so dense with pure white blossom that they look overwhelmed by a sudden snowfall' Vorwort From a 2018 Wainwright Prize shortlisted author , THE CIRCLING SKY is part childhood memoir , blended with exquisite nature observation , and the story of one man's journey over a year to one of the UK's key natural habitats, the New Forest of Hampshire Zusammenfassung From a 2018 Wainwright Prize shortlisted author , THE CIRCLING SKY is part childhood memoir , blended with exquisite nature observation , and the story of one man's journey over a year to one of the UK's key natural habitats, the New Forest of Hampshire In the form of several journeys, beginning in January 2019, Neil Ansell returns for solitary walks to the New Forest in Hampshire , close to where he was born. With beautiful sightings and observations of birds, trees, butterflies, insects and landscape , this is also a reflective memoir on childhood , on the history of one of the most ancient and important natural habitats in the United Kingdom , and on the Gypsies who lived there for centuries - and were subsequently expelled to neighbouring cities. It is also part polemic on our collective and individual responsibility for the land and world in which we live, and how we care for it . As Neil Ansell concludes so eloquently, 'Evolution has no choice in what it does, but we do, as a species, if not always as individuals'. ...
