At the Water's Edge : A personal quest for wildness

For the last thirty years John Lister-Kaye, one of Britain’s best-known nature writers, has taken the same circular walk from his home deep in a Scottish glen up to a small hill loch.

Drawing on this lifetime of close observation, John Lister-Kaye’s new book encourages us to look again at the nature around us and to discover its wildness for ourselves. It also forges wonderful connections between the most unlikely subjects, from photosynthesis and the energy cycle to Norse mythology, to weasels and perfume and to the over-population of our planet.

Praise for At the Water's Edge:

Exquisite nature writing…You want to linger over the language and insights, but at the same time you feel inspired to rush out into whatever wilderness (or wildness) is at hand and experience the rapture described for yourself. At the Water’s Edge sneaks up on you, a bit like the way John Lister-Kaye carefully approaches his loch so as not to disturb the wildlife.

Age

[Lister-Kaye] wants to remind us that we too are part of the web of interdependence and interaction that we’ll see, if we take the time, between every organism that crosses our path.’

Weekend Australian

Dedicated conservationist Lister-Kaye has spent much of his life in solitary contemplation of his environment…This is a quiet but rousing call to action for anyone who loves the natural world and wants to help preserve it.

The Sunday Telegraph