The Dun Cow Rib
A Very Natural Childhood
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Publisher Description
John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its creatures. His memoir The Dun Cow Rib is the story of a boy's awakening to the wonders of the natural world.
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. Threaded through his adventures - from moving to the Scottish Highlands to work with Gavin Maxwell, to founding the famous Aigas Field Centre - is an elegy to his remarkable mother, and a wise and affectionate celebration of Britain's natural landscape.
Customer Reviews
Stunning
This is a stunningly well written memoir of a man’s winding road to finding and believing in himself as a naturalist. There are blissful, beautiful moments, and other moments that are startlingly real and tragic. Lister-Kaye takes you by the hand and gives you his own personal tour of landscapes in England and Scotland that are hard not to fall in love with the way he describes them.
I’m an American who visited Scotland and saw this title at the airport. I’m glad I did - though Lister-Kaye is English, reading this helped me learn a little more about Scotland, it’s creatures, and it’s people.