Non Fiction
Category: History, Memoir, Non Fiction, Places
Number of pages: 208
ISBN: 9781781725061
Publication date: October 26, 2020
Price: £12.99
For twenty-five years Daniel Butler has lived in the Cambrian Mountains near Rhayader, absorbing the world around him and charting its changes, slow and rapid. His passion for keeping hawks was compounded by two wild birds, barn owls which nested at his farm and became increasingly tame and familiar with him and his family.
Charting his relationship with his birds The Owl House is also a pastoral exploration of Daniel’s locale, rich as it is in wildlife of all kinds. In it he roams the mountains and forests, takes trips to the coast, encounters all manner of animals and birds, and grows to understand the relationship between the local people and their surroundings.
These multiple and interwoven themes result in a rich and vividly written portrait of one of the most remote and sparsely populated areas of Britain, broad in its horizons yet full of fascinating detail. The Owl House is an evocative and informative book which can only have been lived to accrue the stories and observations of the natural world which it contains.
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Daniel Butler
Daniel Butler has been a freelance writer and journalist since 1989, specialising in rural and environmental issues. He has published 6 books about nature and the countryside, including The Red Tail and Sharing the Seasons with a Hawk (Cape, 1994). He moved to live the good life in Wales in 1993 and for seven years was a Country Living columnist (Diary of a Smallholder). His journalism has also been published in The Telegraph, Countryside, The Independent, Daily Express, Country and Border Life, The Central Office for Information, and the Brecon Beacons National Park. His particular passions are birds of prey, edible fungi and forestry. His new book The Owl House is available now.
“The Owl House is packed with information that makes this book ideal for anyone, whether they are already knowledgeable themselves or learning about conservation for the first time. A rich, vividly written book about birds, wildlife and nature, thought-provoking and inspiring.”
Sarah Bowdidge, Buzz Magazine
