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A pair of mute swans struggle against the odds to sustain their life on a wild patch of loch. Then the hen starts to lose her eggs to predators. She builds her nest and lays her eggs, only to lose them, again and again, days before hatching. Jim Crumley is the author of The Road and the Miles.
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"A book to be treasured" (Rosamund Young, author of The Secret Life of Cows)
"This is only a short tale, but it is delicately told, and the fate of the abandoned mate is movingly described" (The Times)
"With exquisite engravings by Harry Brockway [this] is a perfect miniature... [Crumley's] prose style remains as elegant as his white-plumed subjects" (Leslie Duncan Glasgow Herald)
"You will want to read it again and again... a lovely book" (Andrew Currie)
"Jim Crumley is the pre-eminent Scottish nature writer" (Guardian)
"Extremely well written and beautifully illustrated" (Colin Gibson Dundee Courier)
"The best nature writer working in Britain today" (Los Angeles Times)
"Enchanting" (Good Book Guide)
"Crumley conveys the wonder of the natural world with honesty and passion and, yes, poetry" (Susan Mansfield Scottish Review of Books)
"Virtuoso writing... Jim Crumley's books come from an intelligence drawn from place" (BBC Countryfile)
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"This is only a short tale, but it is delicately told, and the fate of the abandoned mate is movingly described" (The Times)
"With exquisite engravings by Harry Brockway [this] is a perfect miniature... [Crumley's] prose style remains as elegant as his white-plumed subjects" (Leslie Duncan Glasgow Herald)
"You will want to read it again and again... a lovely book" (Andrew Currie)
"Jim Crumley is the pre-eminent Scottish nature writer" (Guardian)
"Extremely well written and beautifully illustrated" (Colin Gibson Dundee Courier)
"The best nature writer working in Britain today" (Los Angeles Times)
"Enchanting" (Good Book Guide)
"Crumley conveys the wonder of the natural world with honesty and passion and, yes, poetry" (Susan Mansfield Scottish Review of Books)
"Virtuoso writing... Jim Crumley's books come from an intelligence drawn from place" (BBC Countryfile)
This beautiful record, on fine paper, is Crumley's homage to these noble creatures, but it is also an elegy, a love song to one swan whose silent tragedy he watched from one season to the next.
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- PublisherThe Harvill Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1860464262
- ISBN 13 9781860464263
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages48
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Harry Brockway (illustrator). Crumley watches, year in and year out, as a pair of mute swans struggle, against the odds, to raise young on a wild patch of loch. The pen starts to lose her eggs to predators and the cob begins to disappear for longer and longer periods. Then comes the day when a third swan, younger and stronger than the first pen, appears at the other end of the loch. This beautiful record is Jim Crumley s homage to these noble creatures but it is also an elegy, a love song to one swan whose silent tragedy he watched from one season to the next. Through his words he has ensured that there will be a more lasting monument to the life of this swan than a small pyre of white feathers. Illustrated by Harry Brockway s striking wood engravings, Jim Crumley s book is a poignant work of observation and celebration. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001911923
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