The Swan: A Natural History

Stunning photographs illustrate our new natural history of the swan, this much-loved creature of beauty and grace.

Professional photographer Malcolm Schuyl has studied the swan for decades - observing, researching and photographing it throughout its life-cycle.

His lively and inspirational book covers the swan in all its stages:

* natural history and behaviour: bathing, preening, moulting, sleeping

* breeding and courtship: mating, nesting, incubation, hatching

* raising their young

* swan domestication and uses throughout history

* the swan in literature, myth, music, superstition

* swan conservation