The Eternal Season: Ghosts of Summers Past, Present and Future
The Eternal Season: Ghosts of Summers Past, Present and Future by Stephen Rutt
English | July 1, 2021 | ISBN: 1783965738 | EPUB | 175 pages | 1.9 MB
English | July 1, 2021 | ISBN: 1783965738 | EPUB | 175 pages | 1.9 MB
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 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. This is a book that sings with love and careful observation, with an eye on all that we might lose but also save.