The Dun Cow Rib John Listerkaye by John Lister-kaye 9781786891464, 1786891468 instant download after payment.

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.

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No one writes more movingly, or with such transporting poetic skill about encounters with wild creatures -- HELEN MACDONALD, author of H is for Hawk 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 * A great naturalist -- CHRIS PACKHAM Generous, poetic and wise, John Lister-Kaye is a national treasure -- PATRICK BARKHAM, author of Badgerlands A book of land-knowing by someone who has spent a gentle lifetime learning the languages of animals . . . with an untameable enthusiasm and generosity of spirit -- JAY GRIFFITHS, author of Wild: An Elemental Journey John Lister-Kaye is one of the most joyful, inspirational naturalists I know -- KATE HUMBLE Every word sounds with a long, close knowledge of place, with a profound appreciation and anticipation of each small change brought by the progression of a day or of a season. Beautifully observed and rich in description -- ESTHER WOOLFSON, author of Corvus The renowned conservationist . . . who's learned to notice what others pass by without a second glance * Mail on Sunday * Lister-Kaye celebrates the turning of the seasons in prose that is as fine as poetry . . . the perfect observer of the to-ing and fro-ing of the wildlife that graces the landscape * Sunday Express * Lister-Kaye writes with infectious joy about the wildlife he knows and loves . . . his endless curiosity and constant fascination with the natural world around him reads more as love story than as tragedy -- Caught By the River

Sir John Lister-Kaye is one of Britain's best-known naturalists and conservationists. He is the author of ten books on wildlife and the environment and has lectured all over the world. He has served prominently in the RSPB, the Nature Conservancy Council, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Wildlife Trust. In 2002 he was awarded an OBE for services to nature conservation. In 2016 he was awarded the Royal Scottish Geographical Society's Geddes Medal for services to the environment. He lives with his wife and family among the mountains of the Scottish Highlands, where he runs the world-famous Aigas Field Centre. His book Gods of the Morning won the inaugural Richard Jefferies Prize.www.lister-kaye.co.uk www.aigas.co.uk