Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2018

John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife.

Lister-Kaye's joyous childhood holidays - spent scrambling through hedges and ditches after birds and small beasts, keeping pigeons in the loft and tracking foxes around the edge of the garden - were the perfect apprenticeship for his two lifelong passions: exploring the wonders of nature, and writing about them.

Warm, wise and full of wonder, The Dun Cow Rib is a captivating coming of age tale by one of the founding fathers of nature writing.

"Utterly charming and captivating" - * The Sunday Times *

"John Lister-Kaye is Scotland's high priest of nature writing; it's charming and moving to wander along with him . . . The Dun Cow Rib is a loving book" - * The Times *

"I should love to pay a visit to and shake this fine author by the hand" - * Mail on Sunday *

"A wise and affectionate celebration of Britain's natural landscape" - * The Week *

"Excellent" - * The Scotsman *

"In this moving autobiography by Scotland's foremost wildlife writer . . . it's when describing the lost countryside of his earliest years that he's without equal" - * Country Life *

"Escape into the joyous childhood of John Lister-Kaye" - * Daily Express *

"Lister-Kaye sometimes writes like the long-lost sixth member of the Famous Five" - * Herald *