A Black Fox Running

Brian Carter author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:14th Nov '19

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A beautiful lost classic of nature writing that sits alongside Tarka the Otter, Watership Down and War Horse, with a new foreword by Melissa Harrison

‘I have never read a novel about animals and the British countryside – with the single exception of BB's The Wild Lone – which has so moved or entranced me. Never’ John Lewis-Stempel This is the story of Wulfgar, the dark-furred fox of Dartmoor, and of his nemesis, Scoble the trapper, in the seasons leading up to the pitiless winter of 1947. As breathtaking in its descriptions of the natural world as it is perceptive in its portrayal of damaged humanity, it is both a portrait of place and a gripping story of survival. Uniquely straddling the worlds of animals and men, Brian Carter’s A Black Fox Running is a masterpiece: lyrical, unforgiving and unforgettable.

A Black Fox Running is really extraordinary, I've not read anything like it before. Balancing and melding animal and human worlds, this is a wholly immersive, vivid and magical book -- Tim Pears, author of 'The Horseman'
A wonderful book … The prose is beautiful, and the story, though like nature pocked with horror, is beautiful too -- Cynan Jones, author of 'Cove' and 'The Dig'
A beautiful, brooding tale … Bleak realism is balanced by gorgeous nature writing, teeming with earthy scents and sounds, and beautiful descriptions of Dartmoor’s wilderness through the seasons ... I can’t get its brooding, gothic imagery out of my head -- Ben Hoare, Book of the Month * BBC Countryfile *
A book of strange, mesmeric power. Poised, impeccably paced and observed, and brutally unsentimental. A thrilling, urgent, almost shamanic journey into the wild – including the wilderness of our own human lives -- Charles Foster, author of 'Being a Beast'
I have never read a novel about animals and the British countryside – with the single exception of BB's The Wild Lone – which has so moved or entranced me. Never -- John Lewis-Stempel, bestselling author of 'Meadowland' and 'The Running Hare'
A breathtakingly beautiful novel, this lost classic of nature writing is the book that made me a writer -- Melissa Harrison
For those who dream of leaving behind the noise and smells of the city and breathing the clean air and adventure of the wild ... A Black Fox Running is the thing those dreams are made of * Torbay News *

ISBN: 9781408896129

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 324g

400 pages