The Dun Cow Rib: A Very Natural Childhood

John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the landscape and its wildlife. 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. The Dun Cow Rib joins Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain and Quarry Wood, Olivia Laing's To the River, and John Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra in Canongate's remarkable nature writing list.

Author: John Lister-Kaye
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 02/05/2019
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781786891471
ISBN10: 1786891476
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | General
- Nature | General

About the Author
Sir John Lister-Kaye is the author of ten books on wildlife and the environment and has lectured all over the world. 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