The Jay, The Beech and the Limpetshell

Finding Wild Things With My Kids

This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Buy on Amazon Buy on BN.com Buy on Bookshop.org
*This page contains affiliate links, so we may earn a small commission when you make a purchase through links on our site at no additional cost to you.
Send NetGalley books directly to your Kindle or Kindle app

1
To read on a Kindle or Kindle app, please add kindle@netgalley.com as an approved email address to receive files in your Amazon account. Click here for step-by-step instructions.
2
Also find your Kindle email address within your Amazon account, and enter it here.
Pub Date Mar 30 2023 | Archive Date Jun 20 2023

Talking about this book? Use #TheJayTheBeechandtheLimpetshell #NetGalley. More hashtag tips!


Description

'Generous, moving and alive. A gift' - Tim Dee, author of Greenery

'Intelligent, thought-provoking and always, always interesting' - Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment

'Smyth writes with warmth and engaging perception about our relationship and understanding of the natural world on our doorsteps' - Jon Dunn, author of The Glitter in the Green

'Fresh and tender and playful' - Patrick Galbraith, author of In Search of One Last Song

Weren't they richer, rock pools, wasn't the seashore busier, when I was a kid?

Richard Smyth had always been drawn to the natural world, but when he became a father he found a new joy and a new urgency in showing his kids the everyday wild things around them. As he and his children explore rockpools in Whitley Bay, or the woods and moors near his Yorkshire home, he imagines the world they might inhabit as they grow up.

Through different objects discovered on their wanderings - a beech leaf, a jay feather, a limpetshell - Smyth examines his own past as well as that of the early natural historians, weaving together history, memoir, and environmentalism to form a new kind of nature writing: one that asks both what we have lost, and what we have yet to find.

'Generous, moving and alive. A gift' - Tim Dee, author of Greenery

'Intelligent, thought-provoking and always, always interesting' - Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment

'Smyth writes with warmth...


Available Editions

EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9781785788024
PRICE $27.99 (USD)

Available on NetGalley

NetGalley Shelf App (PDF)
Send to Kindle (PDF)
Download (PDF)

Average rating from 7 members


Readers who liked this book also liked: