From the preface, in the author's own words:
This is a book about people and animals and things I care about. It's about growing up and showing your stuff, finding love, winning and losing, and getting older. It's about where I began and where I came to at a particular time in my life, as a person and as a writer. And I suppose it's also about where I'm headed, though I never seem to realize such things at the time. We come, we do, we go and the doing can be a rather grand voyage if you don't panic and if you believe, as I believe, i magic and imagination and wizards who live along quiet country rivers."

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Oh lovely, thank you so much!!!

Beautiful writings, esseys. I loved the quiet rythmn and the humour in some of the stories, and also the love of nature and all its creatures!

Enjoy the book!