Books written by Jim Crumley

  • The Nature of Winter
    The Nature of Winter

    " BBC Countryfile Magazine, Book of the Month "This book is all luminous moments, small delights and bright meditations drawn from the northern cold... there is deeply indigenous wisdom here.

  • The Nature of Spring
    The Nature of Spring

    Spring marks the genesis of nature's year.

  • Scottish Landscapes
    Scottish Landscapes

    LOCH GARRY A famous viewpoint on the road between Invergarry and Kyle of Lochalsh . ultimate marriage of the Lewissian and the Torridonian , and from its heights you see , in the midst of so much rock and water , the miracle of Elphin's ...

  • The Eagle's Way: Nature's New Frontier in a Northern Landscape
    The Eagle's Way: Nature's New Frontier in a Northern Landscape

    Two distinguished eagle authorities two or three generations apart – John Love and Seton Gordon – have identified historic sea eagle eyries hereabouts on islands in lochs. Loch Tulla is one of these. John Love's name is synonymous with ...

  • Nature's Architect: The beaver's return to our wild landscapes
    Nature's Architect: The beaver's return to our wild landscapes

    Nature's architect is also nature's landscape architect, and for that matter, nature's usurper. Beavers do not adapt their way of life ... The occasional misguided sheep finds its way there from nearby farms, but it is nature's place.

  • The Winter Whale
    The Winter Whale

    In late November, 1893, a humpback whale - as rare a sight in the North Sea then as it would be now - followed herring shoals into the Tay estuary, and travelled as far upstream as Dundee docks to linger in the home waters of the biggest ...

  • The Nature of Winter
    The Nature of Winter

    In The Nature of Winter, Jim Crumley ventures into our countryside to experience firsthand the chaos and the quiet solitude of nature's rest period.

  • The Eagle's Way
    The Eagle's Way

    "Nature's new frontier in a Northern landscape"--Cover.

  • The Nature of Spring
    The Nature of Spring

    Jim Crumley chronicles the wonder, tumult and spectacle of that transformation, but he shows too that it is no Wordsworthian idyll that unfolds.

  • The Nature of Spring
    The Nature of Spring

    Jim Crumley chronicles the wonder, tumult, and spectacle of that transformation, but he shows too that it is no Wordsworthian idyll that unfolds.

  • The Nature of Autumn
    The Nature of Autumn

    Taking in September to November, Jim Crumley tells the story of how unfolding autumn affects the wildlife and landscapes of his beloved countryside.

  • Watching Wildlife
    Watching Wildlife

    ... watch wildlife? Guess what: I don't know. I know what works for me at least some of the time, but I concede that I am a relatively rare species of wildlife watcher. Firstly, I am not a naturalist and have never claimed to be one. Nor am ...

  • The Last Wolf
    The Last Wolf

    In this passionate polemic, Jim Crumley argues that these stories are pure fiction, a distortion of reality which prevents people from thinking rationally about the huge benefits the presence of wolves could bring to Scotland.

  • The Eagle's Way: Nature's New Frontier in a Northern Landscape
    The Eagle's Way: Nature's New Frontier in a Northern Landscape

    In 'The Eagle's Way', Jim Crumley exploits his years of observing these spectacular birds to paint an intimate portrait of their lives and how they interact with each other and the Scottish landscape.