Polly Pullar and her son Freddy live in Highland Perthshire with their extended menagerie including a small flock of sheep.
She has written two other books both illustrated by Keith Brockie:
Dancing with Ospreys and Rural Portraits - Scottish Native Farm Animals, Characters & Landscapes.
The varied pictures in Further Afield once again reveal her passion for the countryside and great love and understanding of animals and birds.
 

Freddy Pullar, Polly's son, was born in 1987. His main interests are climbing, skiing, sailing, target rifle shooting, and computing. His school days were spent at Glenalmond, and he designed the layout of Further Afield when he was 15 years old, his first venture into graphic design.
 
In the summer of 2007 he completed the Mongol Rally for charity driving 10,000 miles from Hyde Park to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia in a 1 litre engine Ford Fiesta. Together with 2 school friends they passed through 18 countries, many of them war torn and bandit infested, and had to take all their own spare parts, food and supplies.

The Foreword is written by Laurie Campbell, Scotland's renowned wildlife photographer.
 
 
 

Here, in Further Afield, you will discover the serenity of a frosted morning in Glen Lyon as the light just peeps over the distant mountains, or the beauty of bluebells under wind-blown oaks on the seashore. There are abstract patterns of coiled seaweed on the sand, and the fantastic disc-like suckers of weed on a reef, or shells strewn on the beach. Her close-ups of birds and mammals are beautiful, and include razor-sharp images in which she captures their behaviour quite brilliantly, from a young red deer hind bedraggled after days of incessant rain, to seaweed-eating sheep skipping between dozing seals, or a study of a frog, perfect in every detail. There are garrulous gannets starkly white against a brilliant azure sky, and the colourfully familiar shapes of comical puffins residing on islands in the Firth of Forth. In the woods and fields she captures minute detail always with great clarity, from orchids on the machair to giant hogweed covered with rimey hoar frost, or abstract patterns of flag iris leaves strongly lit with low sunshine.

Many of the creatures have been taken close to home and include amusing pictures of goats, sheep, dogs, ponies and other domestic creatures - a hen sitting on the sofa with a Staffordshire bull terrier, or a large group of golden retrievers. From deer, to owls and domestic fowls, the relationship with the photographer and her subjects will delight. Humour is never far from the surface and is clearly revealed when she encounters one particularly aggressive cock red grouse.

There is something here for anyone with the remotest interest in the natural world and love of animals. Further Afield has been designed by Polly's 15 year old son. All the photographs have been taken with a 35mm camera and, unusually, remain unaltered and exactly as they were taken. This is a charming book that will take you on a relaxing visual journey far away from the stresses and strains of modern life.
 
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