Company of Swans - Hardcover

"A book to be treasured" (Rosamund Young, author of The Secret Life of Cows)

"It's lovely. So gentle and understated, and yet so poignant and connected." (Chris Packham, author of Fingers in the Sparkle Jar)

"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)

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.