num_pages: 314
description: For the last 30 years nature writer John Lister-Kaye has taken the same circular walk from his home deep in a Scottish glen up to a small lake. Each day brings a new observation or an unexpected encountera fragile spiders web an osprey struggling to lift a trout from the water or a woodcock exquisitely camouflaged on her nestand every day on his return home he records his thoughts in a journal. Drawing on this lifetime of close observation John Lister-Kaye encourages a second look at nature and discovery of its wildness. He also forges wonderful connections between the most unlikely subjects from photosynthesis and the energy cycle to Norse mythology weasels and the overpopulation of the planet. At the Waters Edge is a lyrical hymn to wildlife and a powerful warning to respect and protect it.
language: English
title: At the Water's Edge: A Personal Quest for Wildness
publisher: Canongate UK