{"product_id":"the-company-of-swans-jim-crumley-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jim Crumley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1787300625\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781787300620\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvill Secker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.56h x 4.96w x 0.24d","brand":"Jim Crumley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44829279387903,"sku":"9781787300620","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8af9360d-d515-4840-a177-52c90d189179.jpg?v=1708450339","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-company-of-swans-jim-crumley-9781787300620","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}