Wintering
A Season With Geese
$26.20
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2020
Summary
The new season begins. The geese return…
The arrival of huge flocks of geese in the UK is one of the most evocative and powerful harbingers of winter; a vast natural phenomenon to capture the imagination. So Stephen Rutt found when he moved to Dumfries one autumn, coinciding with the migration of thousands of pink-footed geese who spend their winter in the Firth. Thus began an extraordinary odyssey.
From his new surroundings in the north to the wide open spaces of his childhoo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781783965052 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1783965053 |
| Author: | Stephen Rutt |
| Publisher: | Elliott & Thompson Limited |
| Imprint: | Elliott & Thompson Limited |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 202g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
“Rutt’s dreamy prose is as cool and elegant as the season he charts.” - BBC Wildlife
‘A poignant testament to how we can find peace in therhythms of the natural world.’ - The Times, Books of the Year 2019
‘Illuminating history and descriptive nature writingmake Wintering an understated gem.’ - Waterstones.com, Gifts for Nature Lovers
‘Rutt’s dreamy prose is as cool and elegant as theseason he charts.’ - Jon Dunn, BBC Wildlife
‘I will never look at geese the same again. Strangely,I can’t wait for winter.’ - Caught by the River
Stephen Rutt
Stephen Rutt is an award-winning writer, birder, and book reviewer whose work has appeared in the Guardian Country Diary, EarthLines Magazine, Zoomorphic, The Harrier, Surfbirds, and BirdGuides.
He is the author of The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds, which won the Saltire First Book of the Year in 2019, a Roger Deakin Award, and was longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2019. His most recent book is Wintering: A Season with Geese.
Stephen currently lives in Dumfries.
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