Prologue: The White Bird Passes Through; One: White Walls Weeping;
Two: Whatever Happened to Bleak Midwinter?; Three: Sweet Medwin
Water; Four: The Well-being of Mountain People Is My Purpose; Five:
A Diary of Early Winter; Six: Whale Watch (1): The; Narwhal in the
Sky; Seven: Solstice; Eight: Wolf Moon; Nine: Hark the Herald
Eagle; Ten: Whale Watch (2): The Humpback’s Back; Eleven: Jay Is
for Crow; Twelve: A Diary of Late Winter
Thirteen: Insh Marshes: A Waterworld with No Half Measures;
Fourteen: I Went Out to the Hazel Wood; Acknowledgements
"Scotland's foremost living nature writer" The Courier. Jim Crumley has written forty books, mostly on the wildlife and wild landscape of his native Scotland, the impact of human activity on the natural world, species reintroduction, and climate change. His work has been shortlisted for prestigious awards such as the Wainwright Prize and the Saltire Society Literary Awards. Jim is a widely published journalist and has a monthly column in The Scots Magazine, as well as being a poet and occasional broadcaster on both radio and television.
Praise for Jim Crumley: "A passionate, compelling, very personal work . . . the honesty of his voice is striking." --Scottish Review of Books "The best nature writer working in Britain today." --Los Angeles Times "Jim Crumley soars with the eagles . . . virtuoso writing." --BBC Countryfile Magazine "Jim Crumley is the pre-eminent Scottish nature writer." --Guardian "Enthralling and often strident." --Observer "An astonishingly good writer. Not just an astonishingly good nature writer, but an outstanding artist with prose." --West Highland Free Press
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