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Island Child
When reading through the diaries of her father, the well-known naturalist and writer R. M. Lockley, Ann Lockley was struck by the differences between what he had written and what she remembered. So here, she gives her side of things. A readable and enjoyable story about an unusual childhood.
The House Above the Sea
"The houas above the sea chronicles Ronald Lockley's life since he settled in New Zealand. The accidental discovery of the House above the sea, its setting, and attendant bird, insect, animal, and plant life are described in a narrative which also details the fight to preserve the wilderness below the house, a fight finally won with the creation of the Tahuna Torea Nature Reserve.
I Know an Island
A study of the bird and animal life in the island of Skokholm off the coast of Pembrokeshire.
The Practical Islander
Dyma ddetholiad o ddarnau sy'n adrodd hanes bywyd R. M. (Ronald) Lockley, yn ei eiriau ei hun. Mae'r pwyslais yn bennaf ar hanes a ffermio, ond mae'r cyfan yn troi o gwmpas bywyd ar ynys. Yn ystod y 1920au hwyr a'r 1930au, ymwelodd Lockley รข nifer o ynysoedd, gan gymharu'r bywyd gwyllt a'r bywyd dynol, a cheir hefyd yn y gyfrol ysgrifau ar ynysoedd Gwales, Enlli a Heligoland. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Dream Island
A combined collection of two books by naturalist Ronald Lockley about his life on the island of Skomer
Shearwater
'Shearwater is sheer delight, a luminous portrait of a magical seabird which spans the watery globe' Daily Mail. 'Charming and impassioned ... a rich tribute to an extraordinary bird.' Horatio Clare, author of A Single Swallow and Heavy Light. A very personal mix of memoir and natural history from the author of Liquid Gold. Ten weeks into its life, a Manx shearwater chick will emerge from its burrow and fly 8,000 miles from the west coast of the British Isles to the South Atlantic. It will be unlikely to touch land again for four years. Part memoir, part homage to wilderness, Shearwater traces the author's 50-year obsession with one of nature's supreme travellers. In the finest tradition of ...
Coastal Works
In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. They have been drawn to the coast as a zone of geographical uncertainty in which the self-definitions of the nation founder; they have been drawn to it as a peripheral space of vestigial wildness, of island retreats and experimental living; as a network of diverse localities richly endowed with distinctive forms of cultural heritage; and as a dynamically interconnected ecosystem, which is at the same time the histori...
New Zealand's Birds
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Skomer Island
The definitive history and analysis of one of Britain's most beloved nature spots, written by an expert with 50 years' experience in the field and a long-standing connection with the island, and including hundreds of beautiful photographs of exhibition standard. Full color throughout.
