{"product_id":"the-dun-cow-rib-a-very-natural-childhood","title":"The Dun Cow Rib: A Very Natural Childhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the landscape and its wildlife. His memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Dun Cow Rib\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a boy's awakening to the wonders of the natural world. 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. Threaded through his adventures--from moving to the Scottish Highlands to work with Gavin Maxwell, to founding the famous Aigas Field Centre--is an elegy to his remarkable mother, and a wise and affectionate celebration of Britain's natural landscape. \u003ci\u003eThe Dun Cow Rib\u003c\/i\u003e joins Nan Shepherd's \u003ci\u003eThe Living Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eQuarry Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, Olivia Laing's \u003ci\u003eTo the River\u003c\/i\u003e, and John Muir's \u003ci\u003eMy First Summer in the Sierra\u003c\/i\u003e in Canongate's remarkable nature writing list.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Canongate Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781786891471\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Canongate Books","offers":[{"title":"Very Good — £1.00","offer_id":47917130154161,"sku":"SB-1786891476-C2","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1786891476.jpg?v=1789683230","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-dun-cow-rib-a-very-natural-childhood","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}