Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey
10 best books like Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey (Madeleine Bunting): The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland, Underland, A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return, The Offing, What Jamie Saw, The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain, The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers, The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence, The Living Mountain, Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides
The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland
| Author | John Lewis-Stempel |
| ISBN | 0857523260 |
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...
| Author | Robert Macfarlane |
| ISBN | 0393242145 |
An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.
In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...
A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return
| Author | Zeina Abirached |
| ISBN | 0761385681 |
When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and little brother. The city of Beirut is cut in two, separated by bricks and sandbags and threatened by snipers and shelling. East Beirut is for Christians, and West Beirut...
| Author | Benjamin Myers |
| ISBN | 1526611317 |
After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that it brings with it. Poetry, perhaps, and a good glass of wine. A nice meal. Nature. Love, if you're lucky.
One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from his Durham...
| Author | Carolyn Coman |
| ISBN | 0140383352 |
This 1996 Newbery Honor book was also a finalist for the National Book Award. It packs a punch in a mere 126 pages and it addresses a social issue that is compelling and necessary to discuss, ie the impact that adult decisions have upon their small children. Jamie's mother chose to subject her children...
| Author | Christopher Somerville |
| ISBN | 0857523635 |
“In January 2006, a month or two after my father died, I thought I saw him again – a momentary impression of an old man, a little stooped, setting off for a walk in his characteristic fawn corduroys and shabby quilted jacket. It was walking that first caused rifts between us in my sulky teenage years,...
| Author | Adam Nicolson |
| ISBN | 1250134188 |
Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land."
A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall,...
| Author | Neil Ansell |
| ISBN | 1472247116 |
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...
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...
| Author | Adam Nicolson |
| ISBN | 0865476365 |
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...
| Author | Cees Nooteboom |
| ISBN | 0156011581 |
Roads to Santiago is an evocative travelogue through the sights, sounds, and smells of a little known Spain-its architecture, art, history, landscapes, villages, and people. And as much as it is the story of his travels, it is an elegant and detailed chronicle of Cees Nooteboom's thirty-five-year...
