Tag: Whittles

Sunday book review – The Highland Cow and the Horse of the Woods by Roy Dennis

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This is the latest wonderful book by the wonderful Roy Dennis. I have reviewed three of them here; Cottongrass Summer (my book of the year in 2020, click here), Restoring the Wild (click here for review) and Mistletoe Winter (shortlisted as a book of the year for 2021 (click here)). I reckon this book is…

Sunday book review (by Ian Carter) of Donald Watson (ed Roger Crofts)

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Reviewed by Ian Carter Donald Watson is someone with whom I’ve built a connection of sorts, though we never met. I have ended up living in Galloway not many miles from the village where he spent much of his life painting the birds and the landscapes that he loved, and making his ground-breaking studies of…

Sunday book review – Wild Galloway by Ian Carter

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Those who enjoy Ian Carter’s writing, and very many of us do, will enjoy this latest work about his new home in Galloway. Ian encounters new species, new names and introduces us to his new surroundings. The author’s move from Devon was motivated partly by a yearning for wildness and from his fairly remote new…

A book but not a review – Donald Watson (edited by Roger Crofts)

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This book is by friends, colleagues and family of Donald Watson, the artist and writer who passed away in 2005.  I can’t review it as I wrote a glowing Foreword for the book itself and was delighted and felt honoured to be asked. This book of nine chapters, by seven authors, brought a person I…

Sunday book review – Great Misconceptions edited by Ian Parsons

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This is a collection of essays about rewilding. I wrote what has been placed as the last chapter so I am reviewing this book without considering the last chapter. I hadn’t seen any of the other dozen chapters until the book arrived in the post last week. The chapters have been brought together by Ian…

Sunday book review – INN Search of Birds by John Lawton

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This is a fun book by a birder and one of the UK’s most eminent population ecologists. Prof Sir John Lawton CBE FRS has won numerous awards for his science and was the chair of a group which produced an important report known, as the Lawton report, Making Space for Nature, which recommended that England…

Bank Holiday book review – Seasonality by Ian Parsons

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Ian Parsons has contributed to this blog on numerous occasions (see here) and this is the third of his books reviewed here (see A Vulture Landscape, October 2020, and A Tree Miscellany, January 2017). I like Ian’s writing as it is clear, easy to understand, has some embedded wit and much embedded knowledge and an…

Sunday book review – An Eye for Birds by Bruce Kendrick

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The author, as a 10-year-old spent six months in a sanatorium to recover from TB and started to develop his interest in birds, helped (as so many of us were) by the Observer Book of Birds. At school he found three mates who were interested in birds too and they explored the Wirral and its…