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Author : Richard Mabey
Publisher : Richard Mabey Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Natural history
ISBN : 1908213930
Author : Richard Mabey
Publisher : Random House
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448114696
'Britain's greatest living nature writer' The Times Rediscover the extraodinary power of nature and the British wilderness, from award-winning naturalist and author Richard Mabey In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression. The natural world – which since childhood had been a source of joy and inspiration for him – became meaningless. Then, cared for by friends, he moved to East Anglia and he started to write again. Having left the cosseting woods of the Chiltern hills for the open flatlands of Norfolk, Richard Mabey found exhilaration in discovering a whole new landscape and gained fresh insights into our place in nature. Structured as intricately as a novel, a joy to read, truthful, exquisite and questing, Nature Cure is a book of hope, not just for individuals, but for our species. 'A brilliant, candid and heartfelt memoir...how he broke free of depression, reshaped his life and reconnected with the wild becomes nothing short of a manifesto for living...Mabey's particular vision, informed by a lifetime's reading and observation, is ultimately optimistic' Sunday Times
Author : Hugh Clout
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0859894916
After the Ruins uses both official and unofficial records to explore a relatively ignored aspect of recent rural history: how the fields, farms, villages and market towns of Northern France were restored during the 1920s in the aftermath of the Great War. The book contains illustrations and many detailed maps and makes use of both official reports and unofficial critical commentaries.
Author : Edward Thomas
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781291417883
Spring was late in 1913 and Edward Thomas decided to go and search for winter's grave and the tell-tale signs of season's turn - he set out to cycle westwards from London to the Quantocks. Edward Thomas 1878-1917 turned from writing prose to poetry in 1914. His work as a poet has been widely celebrated and admired - Ted Hughes described Thomas as "the father of us all". The Pursuit of Spring, originally published in 1914, bridges the divide between Thomas the journalist/critic and Thomas the highly regarded poet.
Author : Walter J. C. MURRAY
Publisher : Little Toller Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1908213701
A beautifully written book describing Mans' desire to be at one with Nature.
Author : A. G. Street
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547194187
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Farmer's Glory" by A. G. Street. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Colin Elford
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780141928388
Colin Elford's A Year in the Woods is an enthralling journey into the heart of the English countryside - with a preamble by Craig Taylor. Colin Elford spends his days alone - alone but for the deer, the squirrels, the rabbits, the birds, and the many other creatures inhabiting the woods. From the crisp cold of January, through the promise of spring and the heat of summer, and then into damp autumn and the chill winds of winter, we accompany the forest-ranger as he goes about his work - stalking in the early morning darkness, putting an injured fallow buck out of its misery, watching stoats kill a hare, observing owls, and simply being a part of the outdoors. Colin Elford immerses himself in the richly diverse and unique landscapes of Britain, existing in rhythm with natural environments. For fans of Robert Macfarlane's Landmarks, Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk orJames Rebanks' A Shepherd's Life, Colin's rare and uplifiting journey will unveil the true nature and beauty of Britain's countryside. 'This is nature for real . . . Elford describes woodland wonders in short paragraphs of luminous intensity' Daily Mail 'A poetic insight in the world of hidden Nature' Countryman 'Stalking sharpens the senses and there is an almost hallucinatory clarity to Elford's writing' Observer 'Refreshingly unsentimental. Contains some wonderful descriptions and sentences which are so profound they demand a second reading' Sunday Express Colin Elford is a forest ranger on the Dorset/Wiltshire border. Craig Taylor is the author of Return to Akenfield and One Million Tiny Plays About Britain and the editor of the magazine Five Dials.
Author : Dave Goulson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781473546509
'Warmly entertaining...an endearing account of the search for rare bees' Guardian A hunt for the world's most elusive bees leads Dave Goulson from Poland to Patagonia as well as closer to home, amongst the secret places hidden right under our noses: the abandoned industrial estates where great crested newts roam; or the rewilded estate at Knepp Castle, where, with the aid of some hairy, bluebell-eating Tamworth pigs, nightingale song has been heard for the first time in generations. Whether he is tracking great yellow bumblebees in the Hebrides or chasing orchid bees through the Ecuadorian jungle, Dave Goulson's wit, humour and deep love of nature make him the ideal travelling companion.
Author : Robert Gibbings
Publisher : Little Toller Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Boats and boating
ISBN : 190821306X
A charming account of an artist-naturalist adrift in a home-made punt on the eve of the Second World War.
Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 1844085279
With a cover design by Lucienne Day When Mrs Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he is a 'pisseur de copie', that he 'urinates frightful prose', little does she realise the repercussions. Holding that 'no life can be carried on satisfactorily unless people are honest' Mrs Hawkins refuses to retract her judgement, and as a consequence, loses not one, but two much-sought-after jobs in publishing. Now, years older, successful, and happily a far cry from Kensington, she looks back over the dark days that followed, in which she was embroiled in a mystery involving anonymous letters, quack remedies, blackmail and suicide.
Author : Jeff Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Liverpool (England)
ISBN : 1908213922
Author : Gareth E. Rees
Publisher : Elliott & Thompson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1783965967
There is a Britain that exists outside of the official histories and guidebooks - places that lie on the margins, left behind. This is a land of industrial estates and electricity pylons, of motorways and ring roads, of hospitals and housing estates, of roundabouts and flyovers. Places where modern life speeds past but where people and stories nevertheless collect: ghost sightings, first kisses, experiments with drugs, refuges for the homeless, hangouts for the outcasts. Struck by the power of such stories and experiences, Gareth E. Rees set out to explore these mundane and neglected spaces, which can be as powerfully influential in our lives, and imaginations, as any picture postcard tourist destination. This is Unofficial Britain, a personal journey along the edges of a landscape brimming with mystery, folklore and myth.
Author : Faith Anstey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215532172
This takes the general reader at an easy pace from the basic characteristics of wild flowers through various techniques for identifying them. It also explains why plants have different habits and grow in different places.
Author : Edward Chell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Painting, Modern
ISBN : 0953899675
Edward Chell investigates motorway landscapes, linking these with eighteenth century ideas of the Picturesque which were formed at a time when commerce and tourism drove the development of roads and laid the foundations of today's network.Soft Estate features art works by Chell which explore the interface between history, ecology and speed, alongside essays giving new perspectives on how roads and travel have shaped both what we see and how we look at it.'These verges and 'island' hyper-landscapes, pulsing with wildlife, contain worlds where our rapid through-transit alters our sense of scale, which is simultaneously diminished and increased,' says Chell. 'Through making these paintings I've become acutely aware of the visual and metaphorical richness of these fragile, yet self-sustaining and tough environments.'The publication, with foreword by Bluecoat director Bryan Biggs includes essays by curator Sara-Jayne Parsons, artist and academic, Edward Chell and the environmental activist and author Richard Mabey.This publication accompanies the exhibition, Soft Estate at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, December 2013 - March 2014.
Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : Longman
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Country life
ISBN : 0582416884
This is the story of the author's life in Camusfearna, a wild and remote area of Scotland, and of three otters, Chahala, Mijbil and Edal, who became his constant companions.