Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary

9 best books like Field Notes from a Hidden City: An Urban Nature Diary (Esther Woolfson): Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, The High King, Taran Wanderer, Wildwood: A Journey through Trees, The Lost Words, Common Ground, My Abandonment, A Kingdom of Love

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Author	Audre Lorde
ISBN	0895941228

in college, in the late 80s and early 90s, i discovered that i had two aunts. this is one (and this is another). aunt Audre intimidated me at first. she was a stern, moody, melancholy woman who had lived a life of so many ups and downs. but as i got to know her, her innate gentleness became clear. this was a woman...

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

Author	Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN	1843500965

The wild Cevennes region of France forms the backdrop for the pioneering travelogue Travels with a Donkey, written by a young Robert Louis Stevenson. Ever hopeful of encountering the adventure he yearned for and raising much needed finance at the start of his writing career, Stevenson embarked on...

The High King

Author

Lloyd Alexander

When the sword of Dyrnwyn, the most powerful weapon inthe kingdom of Prydain, falls into the hands of Arawn-Death-Lord, Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, and Prince Gwydion raise an army to march against Arawn's terrible cohorts. After a winter expedition filled with danger, Taran's army arrives at...

Taran Wanderer

Author	Lloyd Alexander
ISBN	0805080511

Taran is an Assistant Pig-Keeper no longer; he has become a hero. Now he dreams of winning the hand of the Princess Eilonwy. Eager to find his origins, Taran sets off with the faithful Gurgi on a quest across the marvelous land of Prydain. Their journey takes them to the three witches in the Marshes of Morva,...

Wildwood: A Journey through Trees

Author	Roger Deakin
ISBN	0241141842

Here, published for the first time in the United States, is the last book by Roger Deakin, famed British nature writer and icon of the environmentalist movement. In Deakin's glorious meditation on wood, the "fifth element"as it exists in nature, in our culture, and in our souls the reader accompanies...

The Lost Words

Author	Robert Macfarlane
ISBN	0241253586

From Acorn to Weasel: a gorgeous, hand-illustrated, large-format spellbook celebrating the magic and wonder of the natural world

All over the country, there are words disappearing from children's lives. Words like Dandelion, Otter, Bramble, Acorn and Lark represent the natural world...

Common Ground

Author

Rob Cowen

'I am dreaming of the edge-land again'

After moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire, Rob Cowen finds himself on unfamiliar territory, disoriented, hemmed in by winter and yearning for the nearest open space. So one night, he sets out to find it – a pylon-slung edge-land, a tangle of wood,...

My Abandonment

Author	Peter Rock
ISBN	0151014140

A thirteen-year-old girl and her father live in Forest Park, the enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. There they inhabit an elaborate cave shelter, bathe in a nearby creek, store perishables at the water’s edge, use a makeshift septic system, tend a garden, even keep a library of sorts....

A Kingdom of Love

Author

Rachel Mann

Another fascinating discovery from the Republic of Consciousness book club, A Kingdom of Love is a poetry book by Anglican priest, poet, theologian ('my work as a theologian has primarily been focussed on feminist/queer liturgical theology and practice') and metal/prog rock music journalist ('I’ve...