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A carregar... The Otters’ Tale (edição 2018)por Simon Cooper (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Otters are one of our apex predators in the UK, but after the Second World War, they almost went extinct due to environmental and other pressures. That they have slowly clawed their way back as the rivers and streams that they live in became less polluted. The fact that they now they can be found in every county in the land is a conservation success and should be applauded. They are almost mythical though, they are seldom glimpsed, even when going looking for them, you may only hear a splash. You will find evidence that they are sound though, their spraints are fairly visible and you’ll probably come across the scattered remains of supper every now and again. Even after buying a watermill on a chalkstream in Hampshire Simon Cooper didn’t expect to see one either. As he moved around the lake and streams that came with his property he began to find the evidence that they were some nearby, but it was finding a family of otters in the mill race, just feet from his desk, that he realised that he was the intruder on their territory. So begins this transitory relationship with this mother and four cubs, as Cooper spent more time watching and following their trial and tribulations of growing up and learning how to swim and feed and playing as you’d expect otters to behave. Cooper’s daily observations have given us this well-written tale of the elusive creature that is the otter. He has used some artistic licence to write the story of Kuschta and her cubs, how she moved into the lakes, the liaison with the father and how she goes about raising and training them to hunt and survive. The story side is woven in with a raft of solid facts and detail on these fascinating creatures following them through the seasons as they live and thrive around the mill. A really good book on that most evanescent of creatures and a worthy addition to anyone’s natural history library. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Shortlisted for THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 'The best popular account of the lives of otters written so far' Richard Shelton, Times Literary SupplementWhen Simon Cooper bought an abandoned water mill that straddles a small chalkstream in southern England, little did he know that he would come to share the mill with a family of wild otters. Yet move in they did, allowing him to begin to observe them, soon immersing himself in their daily routines and movements. He developed an extraordinary close relationship with the family, which in turn gave him a unique insight into the life of these fascinating creatures. Cooper interweaves the personal story of the female otter, Kuschta, with the natural history of the otter in the British Isles, only recently brought back from the brink of extinction through tireless conservation efforts. Following in the footsteps of Henry Williamson's classic 1920s tale Tarka the Otter, readers are taken on a journey through the calendar year, learning the most intimate detail of this most beautiful of British mammals. Cooper brings these beloved animals to life in all their wondrous complexity, revealing the previously hidden secrets of their lives in this beautifully told tale of the otter. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Go to google streetview and locate the village of Nether Wallop and even the author's house/water mill and you will envy the beauty of the countryside where the author lives.
I had to search for articles about the author because I wanted to know his story and why he is writing this excellent natural history of this family of otters that live in and near his home. I found two....
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/angler-lost-fish-otters-fall-love/
https://forumpublications.co.uk/simon-cooper-fly-fishing-agent-chalk-stream-cons...
The author really needs to complete his biographical sketch here on Goodreads because his story is as interesting as his books.
I was immediately reminded of another natural history of the English countryside and forest, [a:Richard Fortey|213020|Richard Fortey|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1205096050p2/213020.jpg]'s [b:The Wood for the Trees: One Man's Long View of Nature|29496108|The Wood for the Trees One Man's Long View of Nature|Richard Fortey|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1510642955s/29496108.jpg|48765102]. Apparently England has no lack of excellent writers who care about the history and ecology of their country.
So, the book is about otters...it is elegantly written by a man who both fishes and writes for a living and it was totally engrossing from cover to cover because you can tell that Simon Cooper has totally fallen in love with this family living near his water mill. You also learn quite a bit about the history of otters in England and otters themselves along the way.
Excellent book. ( )