Seasons of storm and wonder / Jim Crumley ; with a foreword by Kathleen Jamie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crumley, Jim, 1947- author.

Contributor:

Jamie, Kathleen, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--Scotland--Highlands.

Natural history.

Climatic changes--Scotland--Highlands.

Climatic changes.

Nature conservation--Scotland--Highlands.

Nature conservation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Glasgow : Saraband, [2022]

Summary:

In this landmark volume, Jim Crumley lays bare the impact of global warming and urges us all towards a more daring conservation vision that embraces everything from the mountain treeline to a second spring for the wolf.

Contents:

Intro

Praise

Title Page

Contents

Foreword by Kathleen Jamie

Introduction: A Moment of Beauty

Part One: AUTUMN

One: A Child of Autumn

Two: Autumn Leaves

Three: The Far East

Four: The Unexpected Eagle

Five: Twenty-four Hours on Harris

Six: Daylight on the Dream

Seven: An Audience with the Great Shepherd

Eight: A Storm Called Abigail

Nine: The Carse

Ten: Autumn into Winter

Eleven: Edinburgh: Summertime in November

Part Two: WINTER

Twelve: The White Bird Passes Through

Thirteen: White Walls Weeping

Fourteen: Sweet Medwin Water

Fifteen: The Narwhal in the Sky

Sixteen: Solstice

Seventeen: Wolf Moon

Eighteen: Hark the Herald Eagle

Nineteen: A Winter Diary

Twenty: Insh Marshes: A Waterworld with No Half Measures

Twenty-one: I Went Out to the Hazel Wood

Part Three: SPRING

Twenty-two: First Syllables

Twenty-three: Falcons of the Yellow Hill

Twenty-four: The Backward Spring

Twenty-five: The Mountaineering Badger

Twenty-six: An Island Pilgrimage (1) - Mull and Iona

Twenty-seven: An Island Pilgrimage (2) - Lismore, the Great Garden

Twenty-eight: An Island Pilgrimage (3) - Lindisfarne, Islandshire

Twenty-nine: May in June

Thirty: The Poetry of Mountain Flowers

Thirty-one: The Sanctuary

Thirty-two: Renaissance

Thirty-three: Swan Song for a Backward Spring

Part Four: SUMMER

Thirty-four: The Goddess of Small Things

Thirty-five: St Kilda Summer, 1988

Thirty-six: You Have Not Seen Her With My Eyes

Thirty-seven: She Is of the Woods and I Am Not

Thirty-eight: Solstice

Thirty-nine: Bass Notes

Forty: The Land of Havørn (1) - Under the Blue Mountain

Forty-one: The Land of Havørn (2) - Islands of Dreams

Forty-two: The Climate Imperative

Forty-three: The Accidental Kingfisher and Other Stories.

Afterword: Never Forget

Acknowledgements

Also by Jim Crumley

Copyright.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Crumley, Jim Seasons of Storm and Wonder

ISBN:

9781913393649

OCLC:

1345586120