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Jim Crumley

Jim CrumleyJim Crumley is a nature writer with almost 20 books to his name, mostly on the landscape and wildlife of Scotland. He is renowned for his style: passionate, inspiring, visionary, sensitive, moody, majestic, and book of his should be missed. He is also a columnist and presenter of radio programmes.

‘Jim Crumley, like all the best nature writers, combines his extensive knowledge with respect and awe for the natural world. He brings a soft-voiced poetry to his observations of nature’s daily dramas, and the sort of imagination that can cast itself inside the egg of a dipper or the mind of a hunting hawk’.
The Herald

Books by Jim Crumley

The Winter of the Whale

‘Twas in the month of December, and in the year 1883,
That a monster whale came to Dundee,
Resolved for a few days to sport and play,
And devour the small fishes in the silvery Tay.

The true story of the humpbacked Whale, made famous by William McGonagall’s poem, which swam up the Tay estuary in 1883, delighted Dundonians with its acrobatics and blowing, only to meet its end at the hands of 700 whalers.  Crumley contrasts the treatment of the Tay Whale with our attitude towards whales and whaling in the 21st century.

November 2008
UK & Commonwealth : Birlinn

Jim Crumley is represented at Jenny Brown Associates by Jenny - .

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