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The Company of Swans

Af: Jim Crumley Engelsk Paperback

The Company of Swans

Af: Jim Crumley Engelsk Paperback
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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.

‘A small mound on white feathers lies on a tussock of grass made grey by a Highland winter. It is all the monument there will ever be to the life of a swan.’

With these words, and those that follow, Jim Crumley has ensured that there will be a more enduring witness to the life of this swan, and of all swans, than that pyre of white feathers.

Crumley watches, year in year out, as a pair of mute swans struggles, against the odds, to raise young on a wild patch of lock. But the pen starts to lose her eggs to predators; and the cob begins to disappear for longer and longer periods. Until comes the day when a third swan, stronger and younger than the first pen, appears at the other end of the loch.

This journal of a swan-watcher, as he calls himself, is an elegy to these noble creatures; and most poignantly it is a memorial to one swan, whose silent drama he has recorded.

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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.

‘A small mound on white feathers lies on a tussock of grass made grey by a Highland winter. It is all the monument there will ever be to the life of a swan.’

With these words, and those that follow, Jim Crumley has ensured that there will be a more enduring witness to the life of this swan, and of all swans, than that pyre of white feathers.

Crumley watches, year in year out, as a pair of mute swans struggles, against the odds, to raise young on a wild patch of lock. But the pen starts to lose her eggs to predators; and the cob begins to disappear for longer and longer periods. Until comes the day when a third swan, stronger and younger than the first pen, appears at the other end of the loch.

This journal of a swan-watcher, as he calls himself, is an elegy to these noble creatures; and most poignantly it is a memorial to one swan, whose silent drama he has recorded.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 48
ISBN-13: 9781787300620
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1787300625
Udg. Dato: 30 nov 2017
Længde: 11mm
Bredde: 128mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato: 30 nov 2017
Forfatter(e): Jim Crumley
Forfatter(e) Jim Crumley


Kategori Vilde dyr: fugle og ornitologi


ISBN-13 9781787300620


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 48


Udgave


Længde 11mm


Bredde 128mm


Højde 197mm


Udg. Dato 30 nov 2017


Oplagsdato 30 nov 2017


Forlag Vintage Publishing

Kategori sammenhænge