The Dun Cow Rib: A Very Natural Childhood

by John Lister-Kaye

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786891476
• ISBN13: 9781786891471
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.7"