The elusive lives of otters, badgers, weasels and more are rendered in John Lister-Kaye's enchanting lyrical style
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: NATURE AND TRAVEL
Footprints in the Woods is John Lister-Kaye's charming account of a year spent with otters, badgers, weasels and pine martens. This family - Mustelidae - all live in the wild at Aigas, the conservation and field study centre in the Highlands that he calls home.
With fifty years of experience living side-by-side with these creatures and the patience of a true naturalist, John reveals the lives of these elusive animals; sometimes red in tooth and claw, but often playful, familial, curious and surprising.
Review
"Praise for John Lister Kaye: Utterly charming and captivating"-- "Sunday Times"
"A great naturalist"--CHRIS PACKHAM
"A love letter to the otters, badgers, weasels and pine martens . . . and a reminder of the fragility of habitat and the beauty and variety we have to lose if we don't choose to actively protect it"-- "Yorkshire Reporter"
"I am addicted to the writings of John Lister-Kaye"--JOANNA LUMLEY
"If only we could all be as attentive to the life around us as John Lister-Kaye. No one writes as movingly, or with such transporting poetic skills, about encounters with wild creatures"--HELEN MACDONALD, author of H IS FOR HAWK
"John Lister-Kaye is one of the most joyful, inspirational naturalists I know"--KATE HUMBLE
"John Lister-Kaye's mesmerising new book reveals the true savagery of mustelids . . . bears both the unsentimentality of a lifelong naturalist and the eloquent punch of a superior thriller-writer"-- "Telegraph"
"Lister-Kaye is the real thing: a peerless observer who is just as much part of the land as his beloved badgers . . . Marvellous"--CHARLES FOSTER
"Renowned conservationist John Lister-Kaye finds as much drama in the creatures of his garden in the Highlands as watching polar bears cross frozen ice packs near the North Pole . . . He has fallen in love with these moments of everyday adventure"-- "Sunday Mail"
"Scotland's high priest of nature writing; it's charming and moving to wander along with him"-- "The Times"
"Sir John Lister-Kaye, a leading naturalist and conservationist, has a fine eye for detail and a poetic turn of phrase. [ . . . ] Mesmerising"-- "Simple Things"
"Sir John Lister-Kaye's latest book reveals the real, bloody world of nature's natural-born killers. [ . . . ] In the course of more than 50 years, he has become one of Britain's most celebrated nature writers and an expert on conservation"-- "The Times"
"Spellbinding . . . Footprints In The Woods is a wonderfully beguiling read. Second to none, it does what all great nature writing should do: it makes you want to get out there yourself"-- "Mail on Sunday"
"This book conjures otters, badgers, pine martens and weasels right onto the page, in language that is deft, vivid and alive"--JAY GRIFFITHS
"With an untameable enthusiasm and generosity of spirit, Lister-Kaye translates [ . . . ] into a kind of inter-species friendship"--JAY GRIFFITHS, author of WILD: AN ELEMENTAL JOURNEY
About the Author
Sir John Lister-Kaye is one of Britain's best-known naturalists and conservationists. He is the author of eleven books on wildlife and the environment, including
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