- Publisher: Birlinn
- Year: 2025
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 232x190mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.5kg
- ISBN: 9781780279350
- Product code: 547160
Community
People and Wildlife on the West Coast of Scotland
Jane Smith New Paperback Illustrated
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Exploring the relationship between landscape, people and animals, the artist and wildlife film-maker Jane Smith ventures from her garden in Argyll, which rewilding has made a haven for birds, dragonflies and slow worms, to the peat moorlands of Lewis, home to curlew and plover; the machair of Uist; the bird-filled woods of Loch Arkaig; and the busy streets of Glasgow. Each chapter is illustrated with her lively, appealing artwork.
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Nature artist Jane Smith has been fascinated by wildlife communities and ecosystems her whole adult life.
Starting from her own garden in Argyll, she travels to ten locations in the west of Scotland - from the towering cliffs of St Kilda and the peatlands of Lewis to the Solway estuary and the urban sprawl of Glasgow - to explore the interaction of people and wildlife in a variety of diverse settings. On her journey she discovers a number of communities who are taking on the job of regenerating their own landscapes and meets a host of fascinating people whose lives are inextricably bound up with questions of sustainability, conservation and landownership.
Contents Includes: Western Isles (peatlands) * North Uist (machair) * Islay (farmland) * Loch Arkaig (woodland) * Knapdale (wetland) * Dumfries and Galloway (river and estuary) * Jura (coast) * St Kilda archipelago (sea) * Glasgow (urban landscapes) *Eigg (community ownership)
Starting from her own garden in Argyll, she travels to ten locations in the west of Scotland - from the towering cliffs of St Kilda and the peatlands of Lewis to the Solway estuary and the urban sprawl of Glasgow - to explore the interaction of people and wildlife in a variety of diverse settings. On her journey she discovers a number of communities who are taking on the job of regenerating their own landscapes and meets a host of fascinating people whose lives are inextricably bound up with questions of sustainability, conservation and landownership.
Contents Includes: Western Isles (peatlands) * North Uist (machair) * Islay (farmland) * Loch Arkaig (woodland) * Knapdale (wetland) * Dumfries and Galloway (river and estuary) * Jura (coast) * St Kilda archipelago (sea) * Glasgow (urban landscapes) *Eigg (community ownership)
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Exploring the relationship between landscape, people and animals, the artist and wildlife film-maker Jane Smith ventures from her garden in Argyll, which rewilding has made a haven for birds, dragonflies and slow worms, to the peat moorlands of Lewis, home to curlew and plover; the machair of Uist; the bird-filled woods of Loch Arkaig; and the busy streets of Glasgow. Each chapter is illustrated with her lively, appealing artwork.
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