Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2018
John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife.
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.
Warm, wise and full of wonder, The Dun Cow Rib is a captivating coming of age tale by one of the founding fathers of nature writing.
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- English
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Social SciencesTable of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Also by John Lister-Kaye
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph of The Dun Cow Rib: A Very Natural Childhood
- Contents
- Foreword: The Deep Heart’s Core
- 1. Wildcats and wilderness
- 2. Death of a dog
- 3. The Manor House
- 4. The Dun Cow
- 5. Ye hunter’s badge
- 6. Rheumatic fever
- 7. Hearts and minds
- 8. Hampton House
- 9. London
- 10. Bartonfield
- 11. The dragon’s den
- 12. The pain of injustice
- 13. Summer and the Arabian Nights
- 14. ‘All my holy mountain’
- 15. An innocence exposed
- 16. Hill Brow
- 17. ‘Upon thy belly shalt thou go’
- 18. Dark shadows, bright horizons
- 19. Rock of ages
- 20. The Pheasantry badgers
- 21. Ring of Bright Water
- 22. ‘Future plans for this island’
- 23. Great hopes, dire straits
- 24. Paradise lost and found
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Promo page for other Canongate titles
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