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Scottish Wildlife and Nature -

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Regeneration: The Rescue of a Wild Land by Andrew Painting
    Regeneration: The Rescue of a Wild Land - by Andrew Painting

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781780277592 | ISBN 10: 1780277598

    Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2021   In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. Home to over 5,000 species, this vast expanse of Caledonian woodlands, subarctic mountains, bogs, moors ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Eye on the Hebrides: An Illustrated Journey by Mairi Hedderwick
    An Eye on the Hebrides: An Illustrated Journey - by Mairi Hedderwick

    £12.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781780277318 | ISBN 10: 1780277318

    Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-month-long journey to 40 islands from Arran to Lewis, recounting her pilgrimage around the archipelago of the Western Isles with which she has had a lifelong love affair.   Filled with wit and wisdom that is ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Last Wild Place: Seasons in the Wilderness by Mike Tomkies
    A Last Wild Place: Seasons in the Wilderness - by Mike Tomkies

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781780277035 | ISBN 10: 1780277032

    When Mike Tomkies moved to a remote cottage on the shores of Loch Shiel in the West Highlands of Scotland, he found a place which was to provide him with the most profound wilderness experience of his life. Accessible only by boat, the cottage he ren ... more

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  • Cover image of book Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland by Kathleen Jamie (Editor)
    Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland - by Kathleen Jamie (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786899811 | ISBN 10: 1786899817

    Bringing together contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, this inspiring collection takes us from walking to wild swimming, from red deer to pigeons and wasps, from remote islands to back gardens, through prose, poetry and photography. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Nature of Summer by Jim Crumley
    The Nature of Summer - by Jim Crumley

    £12.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912235728 | ISBN 10: 1912235722

    In the abiding light of summer, the nature in Jim Crumley's heartlands of Scotland is burgeoning freely. Seals sing, brown hares bound, dragonflies dance. His silent vigils reveal not only an enchanting account of summer's exuberant profusion, but th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Just Another Mountain: A Memoir of Hope by Sarah Jane Douglas
    Just Another Mountain: A Memoir of Hope - by Sarah Jane Douglas

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783964956 | ISBN 10: 1783964952

    Shortlisted for Travel Memoir Book of the Year, Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020 / Winner – GOLD in Personality of the Year, SILVER in The Extra Mile Award as well as SILVER in Book of the Year all in The Great Outdoor Awards 2019  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Among the Summer Snows: In Search of Scotland
    Among the Summer Snows: In Search of Scotland's Last Snows - by Christopher Nicholson

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910463857 | ISBN 10: 191046385x

    As the summer draws to a close, a few snowbeds - some as big as icebergs - survive in the Scottish Highlands. Christopher Nicholson's Among the Summer Snows is both a celebration of these great, icy relics and an intensely personal meditation on thei ... more

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  • Cover image of book Swimming with Seals by Victoria Whitworth
    Swimming with Seals - by Victoria Whitworth

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784978396 | ISBN 10: 1784978396

    This is a memoir of intense physical and personal experience, exploring how swimming with seals, gulls and orcas in the cold waters off Orkney provided Victoria Whitworth with an escape from a series of life crises and helped her to deal with intoler ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gods of the Morning: A Bird
    Gods of the Morning: A Bird's Eye View of a Highland Year - by John Lister-Kaye

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782114178 | ISBN 10: 1782114173

    For more than three decades, John Lister-Kaye has been enraptured by the spectacular seasonal metamorphosis at Aigas, the world-renowned Highlands field centre. Over the years, the glen's wildlife has come to infiltrate his soul, whether it is a warb ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie
    Sightlines - by Kathleen Jamie

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780956308665 | ISBN 10: 095630866x

    The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered, what is it that we're just not seeing?   Five years after Findings broke the mould of nature writing, Kathleen Jamie subtly shifts our focus on landscape and the living world, daring u ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd, with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane
    The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland - by Nan Shepherd, with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780857861832 | ISBN 10: 0857861832

    In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland.   There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poe ... more

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  • Cover image of book At the Water
    At the Water's Edge: A Walk in the Wild - by John Lister-Kaye

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847674050 | ISBN 10: 1847674054

    For the last thirty years John Lister-Kaye has taken the same circular walk from his home deep in a Scottish glen up to a small hill loch. Each day brings a new observation or an unexpected encounter – a fragile spider's web, an osprey struggling to ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Last Wolf by Jim Crumley
    The Last Wolf - by Jim Crumley

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781841588476 | ISBN 10: 1841588474

    In The Last Wolf, Jim Crumley explores the place of the wolf in Scotland – past, present and future – and challenges many of the myths that have been regarded for centuries as biological fact. Bringing to bear a lifetime’s immersion in his native lan ... more

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