In order to escape from the world of laboratories and city life young naturalist and biologist lean Lawman hit upon a plan that found

Here is a charming evocation of the island's history and habitat set against the rapid changes brought about by environmental pressures. For anyone who knows the island, or who has an interest in the seabirds and. and flora of our coast, this book will be treasure-trove of interest and delight.

In order to escape from the world of laboratories and city life young naturalist and biologist Jean Lawman hit upon a plan that found her embarking, with her husband, on a small boat to spend the summer month, on Skokholm a remote island, off the coast of West Wales. For the next six years this was to be her island home, a paradise of natural scenery and rich wildlife accessible only to a handful of visiting birdwatchers and resident lighthouse keeper The author's job as an island warden and her professional training gave her ample opportunity to study

the wildlife of the island and also to study the sometimes peculiar habits of her fellow islanders. Her journals, sketches, and photographs these stories and anecdotes are here combined in Skokholm - An Island Remembered.

Jean Lawman was born and raised close to the Solent in Hampshire from where her love of the sea and an enthusiasm for natural history grew. She later studied applied biology in London but, following a brief period of employment at Imperial College, she quickly sought to escape from city life. For six idyllic years Skokholm became her island 'home' and, twenty-five years on, such was the strength of her passion for the place and its wildlife, that she drew upon her island notes and journals to compile this book.

Since leaving Skokholm she has travelled widely and has worked extensively on natural history and conservation projects in west Cornwall for a variety of academic and conservation organisations. From this work sprang her first book, A Natural History of the Lizard Peninsula, to be followed by Wildlife at Land's End, a personal account of a year spent observing the natural history of that remote peninsula.
She now lives in west Cornwall, close to the sea, from where she can continue her lifelong interest in plants and animals, particularly seabirds and cetaceans.

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