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Jim Crumley The Company of Swans (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Company of Swans
- Publication Name
- The Company of Swans
- Title
- The Company of Swans
- Illustrator
- Harry Brockway
- Contributor
- Harry Brockway (Illustrated by)
- Format
- Uk-B Format Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1787300625
- EAN
- 9781787300620
- ISBN
- 9781787300620
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Genre
- Nature
- Release Year
- 2017
- Release Date
- 30/11/2017
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.2in
- Item Length
- 7.9in
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 13 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Topic
- Animals / Birds
- Number of Pages
- 48 Pages
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This beautiful record, on fine paper, is Crumley's homage to these noble creatures, but it is also an elegy, a love song to one swan whose silent tragedy he watched from one season to the next. 'A small mound on white feathers lies on a tussock of grass made grey by a Highland winter. It is all the monument there will ever be to the life of a swan.' With these words, and those that follow, Jim Crumley has ensured that there will be a more enduring witness to the life of this swan, and of all swans, than that pyre of white feathers. Crumley watches, year in year out, as a pair of mute swans struggles, against the odds, to raise young on a wild patch of lock. But the pen starts to lose her eggs to predators; and the cob begins to disappear for longer and longer periods. Until comes the day when a third swan, stronger and younger than the first pen, appears at the other end of the loch. This journal of a swan-watcher, as he calls himself, is an elegy to these noble creatures; and most poignantly it is a memorial to one swan, whose silent drama he has recorded.
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Publisher
Penguin Random House
ISBN-10
1787300625
ISBN-13
9781787300620
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038599887
Product Key Features
Book Title
Company of Swans
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Animals / Birds
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Nature
Number of Pages
48 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ql696.A52
Reviews
"It's lovely. So gentle and understated, and yet so poignant and connected." - Chris Packham, author of Fingers in the Sparkle Jar -, "With exquisite engravings by Harry Brockway [this] is a perfect miniature... [Crumley's] prose style remains as elegant as his white-plumed subjects" - Leslie Duncan - Glasgow Herald, "This is only a short tale, but it is delicately told, and the fate of the abandoned mate is movingly described" - - The Times, "Crumley conveys the wonder of the natural world with honesty and passion and, yes, poetry" - Susan Mansfield - Scottish Review of Books
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Trade
Illustrated
Yes
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