The Eternal Season

Rutt, Stephen

£14.99

An evocative exploration of the changing nature of aBritish summer published at the height of the season

Available on backorder

Publish Date: 01/07/2021
ISBN: 9781783965731 Category: Tags: ,

Description

A soaring celebration of summer and a poignant journey into the changing nature of the British season – from the award-winning author of Wintering and The Seafarers.

Summer is traditionally a time of plenty, of warmth; a time to celebrate abundance. And so Stephen Rutt sets out to explore the natural world during its moment of fullest bloom. Butterflies and dragonflies add colour to his days; moths and bats lift the warm nights; swallows, nightjars and wood warblers fill the forests and skies.

What Stephen notices too, however, are the many ways in which the season is becoming deranged by a changed and changing climate: the wrong birds singing at the wrong time; August days as cold as February; the creeping disturbances that we may not notice while nature still has some voice.

The Eternal Season is both a celebration of summer and a warning of the unravelling of this beautiful web of abundant life. This is a book that sings with love and careful observation, with an eye on all that we might lose but also save.

***’An urgent and beautiful walk through the changing character of the British summer.’ Rebecca Schiller, author of Earthed

‘Elegant, vivid, thoroughly absorbing, The Eternal Season strikes the perfect balance between celebrating the natural world and sounding a realistic warning about the damage we continue to wreak on it. All in all, a treat.’ Lev Parikian, author of Into the Tangled Bank

Additional information

Weight 384 g
Dimensions 216 × 138 × 28 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

272

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

508.2 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K