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Running Wild (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 290
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Running Wild (Paperback)
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List price R585
Loot Price R529
Discovery Miles 5 290
You Save R56 (10%)
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You thought he was retired, even dead? No, he is back! At the age
of 86, Mike Tomkies is back doing what he does best - observing our
rarest and most dramatic wildlife, unsuspected and from close
quarters, and writing about it with the kind of intimate detail
that has earned high acclaim from critics and conservationists.
Within days of arriving back from five years of studying bears,
wolves and lynxes in Spain, he is up a wild cliff in Cornwall
watching three peregrine falcon chicks from hatching to flying
stage. We can follow his astounding adventures over the next ten
years as he obsessively searches all through Britain for that
elusive 'small wild paradise' so many of us would also like to
find. He lives in, but finally loses, no less than six new homes in
that time and the complications and reasons why are both hilarious
and sad. Even more fascinating is his continual obsessive quest to
get up close and personal with nesting goshawks, buzzards and
ospreys, as well as mammals like fishing otters, a fox family and
he even feeds wild badgers by hand. At one remote farmhouse in the
Borders, he learns how to handle a bulldozer, digs out his own
70-yard lake and stocks it with trout. Over three years there he
raises ten barn owl chicks and establishes three breeding pairs in
areas where they had long been absent. It was the most successful
barn owl release at the time. There are many amusing anecdotes such
as when he dreaded taking some of Prince Harry's classmates to
'otter bay' and then saw far more otters than when he had gone
there on his own! Transcending all are his new studies and
descriptions of hunting and nesting golden eagles, during which he
passed his 3,050th hour in one of his home-made 'invisible' hides,
and a huge female allowed him to bring much-needed meat to her
chicks in their eyrie. The book ends with triumphant filming of the
magnificent white-tailed sea eagles on Mull, hunting and sailing
into their high nest with prey and feeding their chicks. Mike also
achieved valuable publicity for the pioneering public sea eagle
hide project on Mull.
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