Taking its title from Robert Burns’s famous mouse, Douglas English’s Wee Tim’rous Beasties offers affectionate, gently comic sketches of the small creatures of the British countryside — hedgehogs, dormice, shrews, and their various kin — observed with a patient naturalist’s eye and a humorist’s appetite for personality and situation.
Warm, charming, and lightly illustrated in the original edition, it sits happily in the tradition of nature writing that never forgets it has an obligation to entertain its reader as well as inform them. Download this free EPUB for a genial introduction to some of Britain’s smallest and most characterful wild inhabitants.