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10 best books like Common Ground (Rob Cowen): The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland, Notes From Walnut Tree Farm, The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence, Holloway, Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field, Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary, The Living Mountain, Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides, Landmarks, 21st-Century Yokel

The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland
AuthorJohn Lewis-Stempel
ISBN0857523260
From the Winner of the Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2015

Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the Red List. The corncrake is all but extinct in England. And the hare...
Notes From Walnut Tree Farm
AuthorRoger Deakin
ISBN0241144205
When Roger Deakin died in August 2006, his death was considered by many to be a great loss to literature. "Notes From Walnut Tree Farm" collects together the jottings, musings and observations with which he filled a series of notebooks for the last six years of his life. In this beautiful illustrated...
The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence
AuthorNeil Ansell
ISBN1472247116
Neil Ansell's The Last Wilderness is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has spent his lifetime taking solitary ventures into the wild. For any readers of the author's previous book, Deep Country, Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways or William Atkins The Moor.

The experience...
Holloway
AuthorRobert Macfarlane
ISBN0571302718
Holloway - a hollow way, a sunken path. A route that centuries of foot-fall, hoof-hit, wheel-roll and rain-run have harrowed deep down into bedrock.

In July 2005, Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin travelled to explore the holloways of South Dorset's sandstone. They found their way into...
Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field
AuthorJohn Lewis-Stempel
ISBN0857521454
What really goes on in the long grass?

Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadow’s life from January to December, together with its biography. In exquisite prose, John Lewis-Stempel records the passage of the seasons from cowslips in spring to the hay-cutting...
Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary
AuthorEsther Woolfson
ISBN1847082750
Against the background of austere and beautiful Aberdeen, Woolfson observes the seasons, the streets and the quiet places of her city over the course of a year. She considers the geographic, atmospheric and environmental elements which bring diverse life forms together in close proximity, and in...
The Living Mountain
AuthorNan Shepherd
This is an alternate Cover Edition for ISBN10: 0857861832/ ISBN13: 9780857861832.

The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing...
Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides
AuthorAdam Nicolson
ISBN0865476365
In 1937, Adam Nicolson’s father answered a newspaper ad—“Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebrides, 600 acres . . . Puffins and seals. Apply . . . ”.

In this radiant and powerful book, Adam describes, and relives, his love affair with this enchantingly beautiful property, which...
Landmarks
AuthorRobert Macfarlane
Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two.

Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature...
21st-Century Yokel
AuthorTom Cox
ISBN1783524561
21st-Century Yokel explores the way we can be tied inescapably to landscape, whether we like it or not, often through our family and our past. It’s not quite a nature book, not quite a humour book, not quite a family memoir, not quite folklore, not quite social history, not quite a collection of essays,...
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