Seasons of Storm and Wonder de Jim Crumley

Seasons of Storm and Wonder

Jim Crumley

In this landmark volume, Jim Crumley lays bare the impact of global warming and urges us all towards a more daring conservation vision that embraces everything from the mountain treeline to a second spring for the wolf.

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Jim Crumley has published more than forty books in the UK, but his work is only now coming to the attention of the wider world. He writes on the wildlife and wild landscape of his native Scotland, the impact of human activity on the natural world, species reintroduction, and climate change. His books have been nominated for prestigious awards including the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing and Scotland’s National Book Awards. Crumley is also a poet and a widely published journalist.

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Foreword by Kathleen Jamie
Introduction: A Moment of Beauty
Part One: AUTUMN
A Child of Autumn
Autumn Leaves
The Far East
The Unexpected Eagle
Twenty-four Hours on Harris
Daylight on the Dream
An Audience with the Great Shepherd
A Storm Called Abigail
The Carse
Autumn into Winter
Edinburgh: Summertime in November
Part Two: WINTER
The White Bird Passes Through
White Walls Weeping
Sweet Medwin Water
The Narwhal in the Sky
Solstice
Wolf Moon
Hark the Herald Eagle
A Winter Diary
Insh Marshes: A Waterworld with No Half Measures
I Went Out to the Hazel Wood
Part Three: SPRING
First Syllables
Falcons of the Yellow Hill
The Backward Spring
The Mountaineering Badger
An Island Pilgrimage (1) – Mull and Iona
An Island Pilgrimage (2) – Lismore, the Great Garden
An Island Pilgrimage (3) - Lindisfarne, Islandshire
May in June
The Poetry of Mountain Flowers
The Sanctuary
Renaissance
Swan Song for a Backward Spring
Part Four: SUMMER
The Goddess of Small Things
St Kilda Summer, 1988
You Have Not Seen Her With My Eyes
She Is of the Woods and I Am Not
Solstice
Bass Notes
The Land of Havørn (1) – Under the Blue Mountain
The Land of Havørn (2) – Islands of Dreams
The Climate Imperative
The Accidental Kingfisher and Other Stories
Afterword Never Forget
Acknowledgements

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