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At the Water's Edge - A Personal Quest for WildnessThe new book everyone's been waiting for.....
Author's foreword
P??? I left the dogs curled in their kitchen basket, pulled on my old jacket, my boots, had and gloves, grabbed my binoculars and stick and set out on the circular walk I have done more times than I can count, I turned up the Avenue between the tall trunks of ancient limes and horse chestnuts, kicking the drifts of leaves across the path just for the reassuring swishing sound they make. My walk takes me gently uphill, northwards with the sun at my back towards high, rocky crags and then round to face the lurching clouds of the Atlantic west by following the Avenue's parallel lines of lofty trees, precisely planted by Victorian landscape gardeners. Now, more than a century later, in the reassuring way that nature always does in the end, the trees have broken free.
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»Seal Cull“This 'Environment Special' is a fairly scholarly investigation into the grey seal controversy. The author’s painstaking efforts to examine the problem objectively are admirably presented in this clear, patient style. Mr Lister-Kaye is careful to define precisely such terms as 'conservation' and 'cruelty', and his investigation into the reasons for the massive wave of public reaction to the culling of seals in the Autumn of 1978 sheds interesting light on modern Man’s relationship with his environment ”Natterjack Wildlife Review »The White Island“What a delightful book! I finished it feeling refreshed and happy. ”Dorothy Stickney  |
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