Between Earth and Paradise
eBook - ePub

Between Earth and Paradise

An Island Life

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Between Earth and Paradise

An Island Life

About this book

After giving up a hectic life as a journalist in Europe and Hollywood in the late 1960s to return to his boyhood love of nature, Mike Tomkies moved to Eilean Shona, a remote island off the west coast of Scotland. There he rebuilt an abandoned croft house and began a new way of life observing nature. He tracked foxes and stags, made friends with seals and taught an injured sparrow-hawk to hunt for itself. It was the indomitable spirit of this tiny bird that taught Tomkies what it takes for any of us to be truly free. Whether he was fishing, growing his own food or battling through stormy seas in a tiny boat, he learned that he could survive in the harsh environment. This is the astonishing story of daring to take the first step away from urban routines and embracing a harsh yet immensely rewarding way of life which, in turn, led Tomkies to an even more remote location and inspired an acclaimed series of books on various animals and the challenges and joys of living in remote places.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 Homecoming
  8. 2 Getting to Know You
  9. 3 Dangerous Passage
  10. 4 Rescuing a Dagger Bill Heron
  11. 5 No Compromise
  12. 6 The Final Break
  13. 7 Winter Furies
  14. 8 Sheep in Nature’s Cycle
  15. 9 There’s More to Wildlife Photography
  16. 10 Encounters with Seals
  17. 11 Bird on My Hand
  18. 12 Symbol of Freedom
  19. 13 Creatures Great and Small
  20. 14 Only Myself Left
  21. 15 Wildcat and Wilder Seas
  22. 16 The Gull and the Fox
  23. 17 To the Rescue
  24. 18 Talking with Ravens
  25. 19 Into a Last Wild Place