The Last Wolf
A passionate polemic that makes the case for reintroducing the wolf to Scotland while thoughtfully unpicking the tradition of “last wolf” stories that poisoned the folk mind towards wolves for centuries. The much-quoted story of Scotland’s last wolf on the Findhorn in 1743 is revealed as a lie. An unashamedly pro-wolf book that has already converted many to its cause. (Birlinn, 2009)

The Winter Whale
The Famous Tay Whale may have been immortalised in a McGonagall poem yet the story of its brief but astonishing stay in the Tay estuary in 1883 and its desperately protracted death has never been written down until now. Jim Crumley employs elements of fiction to enliven the facts and reveals his own lifelong connection to the creature. (Birlinn, 2008)

Brother Nature
A modern classic of nature writing considers wildness from the point of view of vivid personal encounters in the heart of the author’s own writing territory, informed and embellished with echoes of Alaska and Thoreau’s Walden. Its conclusion charts a path for Scotland towards a wilder future.(Whittles, 2007).

The Mountain of Light
A unique novel blending folk-tale, myth, love story, and hymn of praise to the natural world. Just who are those mysterious poet-guardians of nature who wander the northlands of the world in the guise of swans, telling stories and reciting poems? Set between old Stirling and Ben Ledi.
(Whittles, 2003)

A High and Lonely Place
The book that associated Jim Crumley’s name indelibly in the minds of all those who revere the wildlife and landscapes of the Cairngorms from river valley to high plateau. First published by Jonathan Cape in 1990 and republished ten years later in a revised edition. (Whittles, 2000)

The Company of Swans
This intimate study of a pair of wild mute swans on a Highland loch began as a programme on BBC Radio Four. The subsequent book was distinguished by the wood engravings of Harry Brockway. After years out of print it is available again in a facsimile edition with a new introduction by the author. (Harvill, 1997)

Gulfs of Blue Air
The Highland Journey is a Scottish literary tradition with a centuries-long pedigree. Jim Crumley’s take on the subject travels from Sheriffmuir to Suilven via Rannoch Moor, the Mull of Kintyre, Skye, and a runny-egg roll at the station tearoom in Crianlarich. (Mainstream, 1996)

Among Mountains
A very personal take on Scotland’s mountain landscape, and a book unlike any other in the vast literature of Scottish mountaineering. It was short-listed for the Boardman-Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and the Bamff International Mountain Book Festival Prize in Canada. (Mainstream, 1993)