John Wyatt
Paperback | Pages: 255 pages Rating: 4.55 | 76 Users | 10 Reviews
Particularize Books As Shining Levels
| Original Title: | Shining Levels |
| ISBN: | 0140041087 (ISBN13: 9780140041088) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Interpretation During Books Shining Levels
People are affected by the grand vistas of the Lake District in many ways, many return year after year to climb the same hills, to bask in the tranquillity of the lakes or to just enjoy the peace away from the hubris of modern life. John Wyatt's first experience of this part of the country was when he visited in the cub scouts and it deeply affected him.A few years later he was working for the Telegraph in Manchester, but the draw of the lakes still had him, so he applied for the job of forest worker at Cartmel Fell. He ended up in a simple hut that had a bed, a stove and very little else. The work was simple and hard, but he relished the task as he was living in the place that he loved the most. One day everything changed when two boys brought him a young fawn that they had found and thought was ill. He explained that it had probably been hidden by its mother who'd return later, but by then it was too late. Wyatt had gained a charge, that he came to call Buck.
If you are expecting wide panoramas of the beautiful landscapes of the lakes then this is probably not the book for you, there is a fair amount about the comradery of the people who he worked with and who he lived near but the majority of this book is about John caring for a young roe deer that was to become a great, semi-wild companion. The antics of Buck would regularly startle and surprise those who would not expect a wild animal to have such a close association with a human. Wyatt may not have had many possessions when he was a woodsman, but he had a life that had riches that no one else could buy.
Be Specific About Out Of Books Shining Levels
| Title | : | Shining Levels |
| Author | : | John Wyatt |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 255 pages |
| Published | : | 1977 by Penguin (first published June 7th 1973) |
| Categories | : | Environment. Nature. Travel. Nonfiction. Biography |
Rating Out Of Books Shining Levels
Ratings: 4.55 From 76 Users | 10 ReviewsEvaluation Out Of Books Shining Levels
A simple, good, heartfelt, fast read that leaves me with a good taste in the brain. A very British naturalist type book by a man who wanted to live naturally, simply, and he did find his "walden pond" in the Lake District. There are some lovely descriptions and very funny bits too, very enjoyable.True solitude is not loneliness. It is a great one-ness. One with everything: the cool grass, the deer, the glade, the wood, the countryside; this thin layer of gas which gives our world life; the planet, the galaxy, the universe. It is not a loss; but a gift of wholeness. A wholeness with everything; body, spirit, mind, and the whole level of attention. A wholeness in the one moment of time poised on eternity.Wyatts autobiographical account reads like a more coherent version of Thoreau's
I wasn't surprised to learn after finishing The Shining Level that it has been re-published by Little Toller, experts in bringing back forgotten environmental writing. Despite my perpetual ambivalence about the English Lake District (childhood 'trauma') and my limited patience for 'survivalism' I very much enjoyed John Wyatt's account of his experiences whilst working on the land there.A good deal of the book involves Buck, the roe deer he was lumbered with due to misguided intervention by
People are affected by the grand vistas of the Lake District in many ways, many return year after year to climb the same hills, to bask in the tranquillity of the lakes or to just enjoy the peace away from the hubris of modern life. John Wyatt's first experience of this part of the country was when he visited in the cub scouts and it deeply affected him. A few years later he was working for the Telegraph in Manchester, but the draw of the lakes still had him, so he applied for the job of forest
Really good read! Not my usual sort of book but thoroughly enjoyed this autobiography of a countryman working and getting to know the land and wildlife all around him.
A memoir that can only warm the heart and make one yearn for a life closer to nature and less full of 'things'. For those of us who love the Lake District it is a book that can only increase that feeling it offers of a connection with nature at its most basic, and its most spiritual. Wonderful.
One of the classic rural memoirs has been brought back in to print in this fantastic edition from Little Toller Books illustrated with etchings by Norman Ackroyd. The 'shining levels' of the title are the tarns and lakes of the Lake District, although this is distinctly not a book about tourist Lakeland, or even about the fells and lakes. It is the story, first published in 1972, of one man's working life in a remote forest in the southern Lakes. John Wyatt was a self-taught writer, with a real
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