Description
THE SEAL SUMMER is one of the most enchanting, and extraordinary, accounts ever written about a wild animal and its human friends, comparable only to the story of Elsa the African lioness. In May, 1961, a young grey seal swam into Chapman's Pool, a cove on the South Dorset coast. At first completely wild, it quickly lost all fear of humans and spent the whole summer playing on the beach and in the sea with people of all ages. Nina Warner Hooke, author of Home Is Where You Make It, is a local resident, who formed a close and affectionate association with 'Sammy', the name by which he was known to his many friends, constantly swimming with him in the bays and inlets of the Purbeck coast. Her account of his beguiling ways and strongly marked character seems to substantiate the unique place of the seal in northern folklore.
Illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs
