The Eternal Season (Paperback)

Stephen Rutt

ISBN 10: 1783966467 / ISBN 13: 9781783966462

Published by Elliott & Thompson Limited, London, 2022

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Paperback. 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. It sings with love and careful observation, with an eye on all that we might lose but also save. Here is nature in all its glory . . . Rutts account of this time is poetic, clean, spare, compelling, leavened with wry humour and urgency. BBC Wildlife [A] passionately argued and provocative book. The Countryman As you progress into the text you see it pull away from the crowd to deliver something more meaningful, something that lingers longer . . . A well-written, accessible and engaging book containing some real gems. BTO News Elegant, vivid, thoroughly absorbing . . . 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 An exquisitely observed celebration of summer and of the way in which the season is increasingly disorientated. Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller An evocative exploration of the changing nature of aBritish summer published at the height of the season Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Eternal Season (Paperback)
• Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited, London
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783966467
• ISBN 13: 9781783966462
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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 color 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.

About the Author

Stephen Rutt is an award-winning writer, birder, and book reviewer whose work has appeared in EarthLines Magazine, Zoomorphic, The Harrier, Surfbirds, BirdGuides and the East Anglian Times. He is author of The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds, which won the Saltire First Book of the Year in 2019, and Wintering: A Season with Geese. Stephen currently lives in Dumfries.