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      Published in Great Britain in 2015 by Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

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      Copyright © John Lister-Kaye, 2015

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      ISBN 978 1 78211 415 4

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      Ted Hughes extracts on p.43 ‘Crow’s Theology’ & p.50 ‘Crow’s Nerve Fails’ from Crow, p.68 ‘The Thought-Fox’ from The Hawk in the Rain, p.176 ‘Deceptions’ & p.191 ‘March Morning Unlike Others’ from Season Songs. All reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd; p.120 & p.152 J. A. Baker, The Peregrine. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd © 1967, J. A. Baker; p.158 From Nature Cure by Richard Mabey. Published by Vintage. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group; p.203 Scott Weidensaul Living on the Wind, North Point Press, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan; Edwin Way Teale Circle of the Seasons. Works by Edwin Way Teale are copyrighted by the University of Connecticut Libraries. Used with permission; p.215 Extract from Richard Ryan’s ‘The Thrush’s Nest’ by permission of the author, from Ledges (published by Dolmen Press, Dublin, Oxford University Press, London, Humanities Press, New York, 1970); p.249 From ‘Natural History’ © 1930 E. B. White. Used by Permission. All Rights Reserved; p.261 From Crow Country by Mark Cocker. Published by Jonathan Cape. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd; David Wheatley ‘The Pine Marten’, by kind permission of the author c/o The Gallery Press; p.279 From The Man Made of Words © 1998 by Scott Momaday. Reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press. All rights reserved.

      For

      Arthur Williamson

      with love

      ‘Let us haste to the cool fields, as the gods of the morning begin to rise, while the day is young, while the grass is hoar, and the dew on the tender blade most sweet to the cattle.’

      Georgics 3 324 ff – Virgil

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