Wintering: A Season With Geese

by Stephen Rutt

Overview

The new season begins. The geese return... Selected as a NATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR by The TimesThe arrival of huge flocks of geese in the UK is one of the most evocative and powerful harbingers of winter; a vast natural phenomenon to capture the imagination. So Stephen Rutt found when he moved to Dumfries one autumn, coinciding with the migration of thousands of pink-footed geese who spend their winter in the Firth. Thus began an extraordinary odyssey.From his new surroundings in the north to the wide open spaces of his childhood home in the south, Stephen traces the lives and habits of the most common species of goose in the UK and explores the place they have in our culture, our history and, occasionally, on our festive table.Wintering takes you on a vivid tour of the inbetween landscapes the geese inhabit, celebrating the short days, varied weathers and long nights of the season during which we share our home with these large, startling, garrulous and cooperative birds.Praise for Wintering:"A poignant testament to how we can find peace in the rhythms of the natural world." - The Times, Nature Books of the Year 2019

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783964550
Publisher:	Elliott & Thompson
Publication date:	09/26/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Stephen Rutt is a birder, freelance nature writer and book reviewer whose work has appeared in Earthlines Magazine, Zoomorphic, The Harrier, Surfbirds, BirdGuides and The East Anglian Daily Times.His first book, the award-winning The Seafarers, was born during the seven months he spent at the bird observatory on North Ronaldsay in the Orkneys. He lives in Dumfries.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Pink-footed Geese 11

2 Barnacle Geese 37

3 Greylag Geese 77

4 Brent Geese 101

5 White-fronted Geese 129

6 Bean Geese 153

Acknowledgements 175

Bibliography 179

Notes 185

Index 191

About the Author 199

Editorial Reviews

"A poignant testament to how we can find peace in the rhythms of the natural world." - The Times, Nature Books of the Year 

"Rutt's dreamy prose is as cool and elegant as the season he charts." - BBC Wildlife

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