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Spring is nature's season of rebirth and rejuvenation. Earth's northern hemisphere tilts towards the sun, winter yields to intensifying light and warmth, and a wild, elemental beauty transforms the Highland landscape and a repertoire of islands from Colonsay to Lindisfarne. Jim Crumley chronicles the wonder, tumult and spectacle of that transformation, but he shows too that it is no Wordsworthian idyll that unfolds. Climate chaos brings unwanted drama to the lives of badger and fox, seal and seabird and raptor, pine marten and sand martin. Jim lays bare the impact of global warming and urges us all towards a more daring conservation vision that embraces everything from the mountain treeline to a second spring for the wolf.
Contents
Part One: Harbingers; Chapter One: First Syllables; Chapter Two: Falcons of the Yellow Hill; Chapter Three: The Backward Spring; Chapter Four: The; Mountaineering Badger; Part Two: Island Spring; Chapter Five: The Nature of Second Spring; Chapter Six: Forty-eight Hours on Colonsay; Chapter Seven: Yell - No Need of Dreams; Chapter Eight: An Island Pilgrimage (1) - Mull and Iona; Chapter Nine: An Island Pilgrimage (2) - Lismore to Islandshire; Chapter Ten: An Island Pilgrimage (3) - Lindisfarne, Nature's Island; Chapter Eleven: May in June; Part Three: Highland Spring
Chapter Twelve: Glen Clova and the Definite Article; Chapter Thirteen: The Poetry of Mountain Flowers; Chapter Fourteen: The Sanctuary (1) - A Second Spring for the Wolf; Chapter Fifteen: The Sanctuary (2) - Loch Tulla; Chapter Sixteen: The Properties of Mercury; Chapter Seventeen: Renaissance
