Joe Shute

A Shadow Above (eBook, ePUB)

The Fall and Rise of the Raven

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472940308
• Artikelnr.: 50926914

Autorenporträt

Joe Shute is an author and journalist with a passion for the natural world. He writes features for The Daily Telegraph and is the newspaper's long-standing Saturday 'Weather Watch' columnist. He is currently a post-graduate researcher funded by the Leverhulme Unit for the Design of Cities of the Future (LUDeC) at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Joe previously worked as a trainee journalist on the Halifax Evening Courier and the Yorkshire Post as its crime correspondent. His other books include Forecast: A Diary of the Lost Seasons and A Shadow Above: The Fall and Rise of the Raven. He lives in Sheffield with his wife (and rats).

@JoeShute

Inhaltsangabe

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