The Eternal Season
A Journey Through Our Changing British Summer
$25.11
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
5 October 2022
Summary
Summer is traditionally a time of plenty, of warmth; a time to celebrate abundance. And so Stephen Rutt sets out to explore the natural world during its moment of fullest bloom. Butterflies and dragonflies add colour to his days; moths and bats lift the warm nights; swallows, nightjars and wood warblers fill the forests and skies.
What Stephen notices too, however, are the many ways in which the season is becoming deranged by a changed and changing climate: the wrong birds singing at …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781783966462 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1783966467 |
| Author: | Stephen Rutt |
| Publisher: | Elliott & Thompson Limited |
| Imprint: | Elliott & Thompson Limited |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 5 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 234g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
***‘An urgent and beautiful walk through the changing character of the British summer.’
–Rebecca Schiller, author of Earthed‘Elegant, vivid, thoroughly absorbing, The Eternal Season strikes the perfect balance between celebrating the natural world and sounding a realistic warning about the damage we continue to wreak on it. All in all, a treat.’
–Lev Parikian, author of Into the Tangled Bank‘Immediate and transporting… a species-by-species picnic of an unfolding Summer… The role of a Nature writer is to tread a tightrope… They must show us the marvel and wonder, but they must also tell us of the losses and risks in a world of climate chaos and habitat erosion… Rutt treads this fine line just right - the tone is hopeful, nostalgic and poignant.’
–Kate Blincoe “Resurgence & Ecologist”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 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 and, most recently, Wintering: A Season with Geese. Stephen currently lives in Dumfries.
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