Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field

9 best books like Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field (John Lewis-Stempel): Notes From Walnut Tree Farm, The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers, Nature Cure, Common Ground, The Living Mountain, Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills, Landmarks, The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation, 21st-Century Yokel

Notes From Walnut Tree Farm

Author	Roger Deakin
ISBN	0241144205

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 Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers

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,...

Nature Cure

Author	Richard Mabey
ISBN	0701176016

Richard Mabey's descent into clinical depression was so annihilating that he could neither work nor play, nor sustain relationships with family or friends. He was drinking too much — and, worst of all, had lost all pleasure in the outside world. This remarkable book charts his gradual return to joyfulness....

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,...

The Living Mountain

Author

Nan 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...

Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills

Author	Neil Ansell
ISBN	0241145007

Neil Ansell spent five years living between the back of beyond and the middle of nowhere, on his own, with no electricity, gas or water and effectively only the wildlife around him for company. His dilapidated cottage, rented for £100 per year, is so exposed to the elements that it appears to rain uphill,...

Landmarks

Author

Robert 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...

The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation

Author	Peter Wohlleben
ISBN	1771643889

The final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben.

Nature is full of surprises: deciduous trees affect the rotation of the Earth, cranes sabotage the production of Iberian ham, and coniferous forests can...

21st-Century Yokel

Author	Tom Cox
ISBN	1783524561

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,...