Jim Crumley has published more than forty books in the UK, but his work is only now coming to the attention of the wider world. He writes on the wildlife and wild landscape of his native Scotland, the impact of human activity on the natural world, species reintroduction, and climate change. His books have been nominated for prestigious awards including the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing and Scotland’s National Book Awards. Crumley is also a poet and a widely published journalist.

Foreword by Kathleen Jamie

Introduction: A Moment of Beauty

Part One: AUTUMN

A Child of Autumn

Autumn Leaves

The Far East

The Unexpected Eagle

Twenty-four Hours on Harris

Daylight on the Dream

An Audience with the Great Shepherd

A Storm Called Abigail

The Carse

Autumn into Winter

Edinburgh: Summertime in November

Part Two: WINTER

The White Bird Passes Through

White Walls Weeping

Sweet Medwin Water

The Narwhal in the Sky

Solstice

Wolf Moon

Hark the Herald Eagle

A Winter Diary

Insh Marshes: A Waterworld with No Half Measures

I Went Out to the Hazel Wood

Part Three: SPRING

First Syllables

Falcons of the Yellow Hill

The Backward Spring

The Mountaineering Badger

An Island Pilgrimage (1) – Mull and Iona

An Island Pilgrimage (2) – Lismore, the Great Garden

An Island Pilgrimage (3) - Lindisfarne, Islandshire

May in June

The Poetry of Mountain Flowers

The Sanctuary

Renaissance

Swan Song for a Backward Spring

Part Four: SUMMER

The Goddess of Small Things

St Kilda Summer, 1988

You Have Not Seen Her With My Eyes

She Is of the Woods and I Am Not

Solstice

Bass Notes

The Land of Havørn (1) – Under the Blue Mountain

The Land of Havørn (2) – Islands of Dreams

The Climate Imperative

The Accidental Kingfisher and Other Stories

Afterword Never Forget

Acknowledgements