Sun-stored summers
Tarka and other otters barely survive a particularly harsh winter, and this idea of the summer being stored away in...
Raven-like croaks
Williamson's lovingly accurate study of otters includes many examples of the playfulness of these animals, be it with each other,...
Treading water
Tarka's mother cleverly entices her cubs into the water, first by putting the food she has caught close to the...
Sun-splashy ripples
You can feel the warmth of a summer day with diaphanous wings darting over glittering ripples.
'She heard the rustling...
Dimmit dimmity
An English south-west dialect word for dusk or twilight, hinted at in the opening 'dim...'.
'At dimmity it flew down...
As large as …
An unusual simile for size, here referring to bubbles. Bubbles feature largely in Tarka the Otter, often blown by the...
Silent as …
Another richly original simile for silence, here attributed to the noiseless movement of a rolling mist. See another silent simile...
Like a broken viper
A wildly meandering river likened to a viper broken by a buzzard - Williamson's inventiveness is a wonder, and almost...
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