{"product_id":"company-of-swans","title":"Company Of Swans By Crumley, Jim","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57555489456510,"sku":"NW9781787300620","price":7.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781787300620.jpg?v=1785126624","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/company-of-swans","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}