{"product_id":"9781787300620","title":"The company of swans","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis beautiful record, on fine paper, is Crumley's homage to these noble creatures, but it is also an elegy, a love song to one swan whose silent tragedy he watched from one season to the next.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'A small mound on white feathers lies on a tussock of grass made grey by a Highland winter. It is all the monument there will ever be to the life of a swan.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith these words, and those that follow, Jim Crumley has ensured that there will be a more enduring witness to the life of this swan, and of all swans, than that pyre of white feathers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrumley watches, year in year out, as a pair of mute swans struggles, against the odds, to raise young on a wild patch of lock. But the pen starts to lose her eggs to predators; and the cob begins to disappear for longer and longer periods. Until comes the day when a third swan, stronger and younger than the first pen, appears at the other end of the loch.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis journal of a swan-watcher, as he calls himself, is an elegy to these noble creatures; and most poignantly it is a memorial to one swan, whose silent drama he has recorded.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvill Secker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55401335030103,"sku":"9781787300620","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/9535243482824.jpg?v=1791872912","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/9781787300620","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}