The Eternal Season: A Journey Through Our Changing British Summer

The Eternal Season is a book that celebrates summer and explores the changing nature of the British season, warning of the unravelling of this beautiful web of abundant life. It is a celebration of summer and a warning of the unravelling of this beautiful web of abundant life, with an eye on all that we might lose but also save.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 07 July 2022
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited

Summer is a time of abundance, warmth, and celebration, and Stephen Rutt sets out to explore the natural world during its fullest bloom. Butterflies, dragonflies, moths, and bats add color to his days, while swallows, nightjars, and wood warblers fill the forests and skies. However, what Stephen notices too are the many ways in which the season is becoming deranged by a changed and changing climate: the wrong birds singing at the wrong time, August days as cold as February, and the creeping disturbances that we may not notice while nature still has some voice.

The Eternal Season is both a celebration of summer and a warning of the unravelling of this beautiful web of abundant life. It sings with love and careful observation, with an eye on all that we might lose but also save. Rebecca Schiller, author of Earthed Elegant, vivid, thoroughly absorbing, The Eternal Season strikes the perfect balance between celebrating the natural world and sounding a realistic warning about the damage we continue to wreak on it. All in all, a treat. Lev Parikian, author of Into the Tangled Bank

Weight: 234g
Dimension: 128 x 199 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781783966462