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Scottish BookThe Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds (Paperback)
Author: Stephen Rutt
£10.95
Scotland
The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds is Stephen Rutt’s nature memoir of his travels from Shetland to the Welsh islands observing seabird life, exploring their role in Britain’s wild coasts and landscapes through encounters with birds and the people who study them. For readers interested in nature writing, birdlife and personal journeys into remote places.
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We finished it wanting to stand on a headland and look longer, because the book makes attention feel like the point.
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From Shetland to the Farnes of Northumberland and the Pembrokeshire coast, seabirds gather on Britain’s most remote and dramatic shores: Arctic terns, fulmars, eiders, drawn to edges of rock and weather. These places can feel like another country, ruled by wind, salt, and the restless coming and going of wings.
In 2015, Stephen Rutt left a hectic life in London for the bird observatory on North Ronaldsay. From that small outpost he began to travel, following seabirds through the landscapes they claim and the histories they haunt. He asks what part they have played in our past, and what they continue to mean to us now, as familiar presences and distant strangers, both studied and half misunderstood.
Winner of the Saltire First Book of the Year.
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