The Seafarers: Scotland’s Seabirds and the Places We Share

In this talk, author Stephen Rutt will bring to life his award-winning 2019 book, The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds. He will talk about the seabirds that are so characteristic of the Scottish coastline, the effect they’ve had on us and the effect we’ve had on them, bringing his book up to date in the light of the bird flu crisis.

Stephen Rutt is a writer and amateur naturalist, specialising in creative non-fiction prose and birds. He won the Saltire Society’s first book award, as well as a Roger Deakin award for his debut book, The Seafarers. His second book, Wintering was one of The Times’s best nature books of the year for 2019. The Eternal Season, his third book, has been shortlisted for the Saltire Society’s non-fiction book of the year. His writing has been published by Granta.com, The Guardian, The Scotsman and Caught By The River.

This special Talk is organised as part of Dumfries Museum‘s exhibition, The Ever Changing, Changeless Sea, running until July.