CRYSTAL WORLD EPUB ED EB

Chris Yates

• Publisher: Collins
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780007448708
• eBook ISBN: 9780007415557
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Literary Collections
• Index: Biological Sciences

Chris Yates, one of Britain's most insightful and lyrical writers, raises his gaze from his beloved rivers and ponds and takes us on a mesmerizing tour of the British countryside.

"Last November, the sudden appearance of a hundred wintering ravens in a wood in Cranborne Chase, where I have lived for twenty-five years without seeing more than a few solitary specimens, reminded me that there is always something ready to flame up again in the landscape, just when it seemed the fire had gone out."

In Nightwalk we accompany Chris Yates on the most magical of journeys into the very heart of the British countryside. His acute observation of the natural world and ability to transcend it exquisitely sets Chris apart from his contemporaries.

Time slows down for a deeper intimacy with nature, and through Chris's writing we hear every rustle of a leaf, every call of a bird. He widens the power of our imagination, heightening our senses and revealing beauty in the smallest details.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• 1 When Time Slows Down
• 2 Last Light
• 3 Northward
• 4 Night Air
• 5 A Circle in the Grass
• 6 The Half-heard Bird
• 7 First Sight
• 8 Stalker
• 9 Into the Trees
• 10 The Ghost of the Nightingale
• 11 A Fearful Tale
• 12 The Unknown
• 13 Across the Divide
• 14 Watching and Waiting
• 15 The Good Shepherd
• 16 The Blue-eyed Bird
• 17 Edges of Light
• 18 The Earliest Bird
• 19 The Hunt
• 20 Two Ways of Looking at a Sunrise
• 21 The Highest Song in the Sky
• 22 Monday Morning
• 23 The Sonorous Raven
• 24 Shape-shifter
• 25 Summer Alchemy
• 26 A New Shape in the Sky
• A Final Word
• Copyright
• About the Publisher