How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature

Title: How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature Author: Marc Hamer ISBN: 9781771649940 Publisher: Greystone Books Published: 2022 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Nature 1436896 Publisher Description: In this evocative and heart-wrenching memoir, a hard-working Welsh molecatcher reveals his double life as a poet and a dreamer - "A wonderful memoir ... hands down the most charming book I read last year."--Margaret Renkl, The New York Times "How to Catch a Mole is a small book of many things. In quiet, crystalline prose, it blends memoir, keen observations of nature, and ruminations about life, aging and death."--Wall Street Journal Kneeling in a muddy field in the Welsh countryside, clutching a creature that is soft and blue-black, Marc Hamer vows he will stop trapping moles--forever. In this earnest, understated, and sublime work of literary memoir, the molecatcher shares what led hi