Footprints in the Woods The Secret Life of Forest and Riverbank
- 4 Jul 2024
- 9781838858803
- £10.99
- 208 pp
- 129×198mm
- 6 Jul 2023
- 9781838858797
- £8.79
- 208 pp
In a few words
The elusive lives of otters, badgers, weasels and more are rendered in John Lister-Kaye’s enchanting lyrical style
In a few words
The elusive lives of otters, badgers, weasels and more are rendered in John Lister-Kaye’s enchanting lyrical style
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
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
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
From pine martens to weasels, John Lister-Kaye’s mesmerising new book reveals the true savagery of mustelids . . . Lister-Kaye’s many expert, wide-eyed descriptions of their hunts – gleaned from thousands of hours of painstaking, superhumanly silent observation – bear both the unsentimentality of a lifelong naturalist and the eloquent punch of a superior thriller-writer. [He is] not only a marvellously lucid writer but also an unusually poetic one
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LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023
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.
More about
the book
LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023
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.
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
This book conjures otters, badgers, pine martens and weasels right onto the page, in language that is deft, vivid and alive
Jay Griffiths
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
Sir John Lister-Kaye, a leading naturalist and conservationist, has a fine eye for detail and a poetic turn of phrase. [ . . . ] Mesmerising
Spellbinding . . . Footprints In The Woods is a wonderfully beguiling read, much like a rapt, highly observant and yet leisurely wander through some wild woodland, with no particular aim in mind but so forgetful of your small, limited self, so happily lost in the wide world of nature, that you hear and see everything. As an evocation of the author’s beloved Highlands it is second to none, and it does what all great nature writing should do: it makes you want to get out there yourself
This book conjures otters, badgers, pine martens and weasels right onto the page, in language that is deft, vivid and alive
Jay Griffiths
Lister-Kaye is the real thing: a peerless observer who is just as much part of the land as his beloved badgers. This, unusually, is nature writing that is actually about nature rather than the writer, and so it has the power and wisdom of the hills and forest. Marvellous
Charles Foster, Author Of Cry Of The Wild
Sir John Lister-Kaye, a leading naturalist and conservationist, has a fine eye for detail and a poetic turn of phrase. [ . . . ] Mesmerising
John Lister-Kaye
View profileSir 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 The Dun Cow Rib, shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, and Gods of the Morning, winner of the Richard Jefferies Award for Nature Writing. John has lectured on the natural environment all over the world. He has served prominently in the RSPB, the Nature Conservancy Council, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Wildlife Trust. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE for services to nature conservation and in 2016 he was awarded the Royal Scottish Geographical Society’s Geddes Environment Medal. He lives with his wife and family among the mountains of the Scottish Highlands, where he runs the world-famous Aigas Field Centre.
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John Lister-Kaye
View profileSir 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 The Dun Cow Rib, shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, and Gods of the Morning, winner of the Richard Jefferies Award for Nature Writing. John has lectured on the natural environment all over the world. He has served prominently in the RSPB, the Nature Conservancy Council, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Wildlife Trust. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE for services to nature conservation and in 2016 he was awarded the Royal Scottish Geographical Society’s Geddes Environment Medal. He lives with his wife and family among the mountains of the Scottish Highlands, where he runs the world-famous Aigas Field Centre.
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