I love Babur – I
One of the great dogs I've met through reading is Babur, whom Rory Stewart acquired, against his better judgement, while...
A mouth filled with eat-water
Henry Williamson's slim study of otters is a masterpiece of limpid writing and of human empathy for other species. Through...
Of curling waves
Tarka the otter enjoys his first exposure to the sea, with a wave being likened appropriately to a shell-fish.
'A...
Flute-like whistle
Williamson uses - and invents - a number of words to convey the sounds of otters. Whistling can be in...
Yikker or yicker
'A score of hearts under browny-red coats beat faster at the otter's chiding yikker as she picked up her cub...
Of edible houses
A donkey nabbed by the Italian army in the Second World War finds himself in Abyssinia where, from his perspective,...
My kinda cats I
This short description of the street cats of Istanbul pullulates with lively triologisms. If you enjoy these chaps, then see...
Reptile-haunted rocks
This reminds me of the French word for basking in the sun, based on the word for a lizard: se...
An electric moment
Having a soft spot for foxes, I loved this description of a hair-raising drive careering through the mountain roads of...
Of pebble-play and glass-green
A lasting impression of Tarka the Otter is of the playfulness of these and other creatures. Tarka plays with anything to...
Shoat or shote
A North American word for a young pig, especially one which is newly weaned.
Source: OED and Barry Lopez, Arctic...
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