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For millennia, we have tried to explain ourselves using the raven as a symbol. It occupies a unique place in British history and has left an indelible mark on our cultural landscape.
The raven's hulking black shape has come to represent many things: death, all-seeing power, the underworld, and a wildness that remains deep within us. Legend has it that the fate of the nation rests upon the raven, and should the resident birds ever leave the Tower of London then the entire kingdom will fall.
While so much of our wildlife is vanishing, ravens are returning to their former habitats after centuries of exile, moving back from their outposts at the very edge of the country, to the city streets from which they once scavenged the bodies of the dead.
In A Shadow Above, Joe Shute follows ravens across their new hunting grounds, examining our complicated and challenging relationship with these birds. He meets people who live alongside the raven in conflict and peace, unpicks their fierce intelligence, and ponders what the raven's successful return might come to symbolise for humans in the dark times we now inhabit.
Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1: Coming in from the Cliffs
Chapter 2: Bird of Omen
Chapter 3: Ravens and the City
Chapter 4: Speaking with Ravens
Chapter 5: Ravens and the Forest
Chapter 6: Bird of War
Chapter 7: The Viking Survivors
Chapter 8: A Night in a Raven Roost
Chapter 9: Ravens in Quarries
Chapter 10: Hunting Ravens
Chapter 11: Living with Ravens
Chapter 12: The Ravens in the Tower
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
