Wildcat haven mike tomkies biography

  • Mike Tomkies began a remarkable experiment, rearing the most ferocious animal to roam wild in Britain – the Scottish wildcat.
  • Mike Tomkies began a remarkable experiment, rearing the most ferocious animal to roam wild in Britain - the Scottish wildcat.
  • Mike Tomkies is a well-known naturalist, writer and film maker and in earlier years was a Coldstream Guardsman and a showbiz journalist in Hollywood.

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    Mike Tomkies

    Mike Tomkies (25 May 1928 – 6 October 2016),[1] known as The Wilderness Man, was a British author covering subjects such as natural history, biography and fiction,[2] a naturalist and filmmaker who became famous due to his acclaimed accounts of living in the wildest and most remote parts of Canada, Scotland and Spain.

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    Born in 1928 in West Bridgford, Notts, Mike Tomkies grew up with his family in Whitley Bay near Newcastle upon Tyne, later moving south to Worthing and then Henfield near Brighton. Protected and driven by his father Vincent after losing his mother, who died during childbirth with his sister, Mike developed his fascination with nature and adventure in the English countryside that surrounded him.[citation needed]

    An early example of his wanderlust was an attempt to sail around the world in 1952, which ended with him being shipwrecked and having to walk 400 miles (640 km) from Lisbon to Madrid.

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    Wildcat Haven

    January 2, 2024
    This is a revised, updated and combined edition of two of the author's previous books, 'My Wilderness Wildcats' and 'Liane, a Cat from the Wild'. It tells of the author's experience of raising two wildcat kittens, Cleo and Patra, and his subsequent attempts to encourage them to breed. To help with this aim, he was given a male wildcat called Sylvesturr, who had spent most of his life in a zoo. Liane was the smallest kitten from Cleo's second litter, whom Tomkies attempted to tame.

    At the time when Tomkies wrote his books, there was very little information available on British wildcats, and much of it was contradictory. His 'wildcat project' added a good deal of information to the stock of knowledge about this fascinating mammal. This book is interesting and informative - it also has some delightful photos of the wildcats. Recommended to anyone with an interest in Scottish wildlife and/or wildlife conservation and study methods of the 1970s and 80s. P

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    Author: Mike Tomkies

    Mike Tomkies fryst vatten a well-known naturalist, writer and bio maker and in earlier years was a Coldstream Guardsman and a showbiz journalist in Hollywood. He has lived for 35 years in remote and wild places in the Scottish Highlands, Canada and Spain and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland. His other books include Alone in the Wilderness, A Last Wild Place, Out of the Wild, On Wing and Wild vatten, Wildcat Haven, and Moobli.

    A gods Wild Placeby Mike  Tomkies

    Mike Tomkies gives a remarkable picture of the whole cycle of naturlig eller utan tillsats around him, in a harsh and testing environment of unrivalled beauty. levande colours and sounds fill these pages – exotic wild orchids, the roar of rutting stags, a pair of dragonflies mating, the flygning of the redwing, the ... more...

    Alone in the Wildernessby Mike  Tomkies

    This is the story of a man who achieved what thousands only dream of. He shed the pressures of urban life as