{"product_id":"9780349117607","title":"Nature's Child","description":"Author: John Lister-Kaye\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780349117607\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Apr 2005\u003cbr\u003ePages: 208 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs I write Hermione's twelfth year is drawing to a close. The years of innocence are waning. But we have had the good fortune to live through a period when a child's mind is wide open and as absorbent as a sponge. Blessed years of exploration and discovery, fat and full of the natural world, which surrounds her here ... the mountains and forests and ospreys, eagles, otters and pine martens of a beautiful land.'   NATURE'S CHILD is John Lister-Kaye's account of bringing up his daughter to appreciate the nature around her so beloved to himself. It is also a moving meditation on that world, and on their relationship, as he shows her how caterpillars metamorphose into moths; how beavers build dams in Norway; how half a million sea birds migrate to Shetland once a year to breed; how white rhinos behave in the wilds of Swaziland; how baby polar bears are raised on an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. As John puts it: 'Life is a collection of fragments of time charged with deeply personal sensation and meaning ... we had watched polar bears for a few minutes, but the recollection of those images are locked in for life. What is love if not time given in joy and delight","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47901042966686,"sku":"ING-9780349117607","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780349117607.jpg?v=1782352307","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780349117607","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}