The Dun Cow Rib: A Very Natural Childhood

John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife.Lister-Kaye’s joyous childhood holidays – spent scrambling through hedges and ditches after birds and small beasts, keeping pigeons in the loft and tracking foxes around the edge of the garden – were the perfect apprenticeship for his two lifelong passions: exploring the wonders of nature, and writing about them.Warm, wise and full of wonder, The Dun Cow Rib is a captivating coming of age tale by one of the founding fathers of nature writing.

Reviews of The Dun Cow Rib: A Very Natural Childhood

Utterly charming and captivating * * The Sunday Times * * John Lister-Kaye is Scotland's high priest of nature writing; it's charming and moving to wander along with him . . . The Dun Cow Rib is a loving book * * The Times * * I should love to pay a visit to and shake this fine author by the hand * * Mail on Sunday * * A wise and affectionate celebration of Britain's natural landscape * * The Week * * Excellent * * The Scotsman * * In this moving autobiography by Scotland's foremost wildlife writer . . . it's when describing the lost countryside of his earliest years that he's without equal * * Country Life * * Escape into the joyous childhood of John Lister-Kaye * * Daily Express * * Lister-Kaye sometimes writes like the long-lost sixth member of the Famous Five * * Herald * *