Nature Cure
9 best books like Nature Cure (Richard Mabey): The Natural History of Selborne, Wildwood: A Journey through Trees, Notes From Walnut Tree Farm, The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers, Findings, Holloway, Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field, Sightlines, The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
| Author | Gilbert White |
| ISBN | 0140431128 |
Gilbert White's classic, best in an illustrated edition like Century (1988), can be read like the Bible, a few paragraphs a day to muse on. Or one sentence: "The language of birds is very ancient and like other ancient modes of speech, very elliptical; little is said, but much is meant and understood."
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| 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...
| 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...
| 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 | Kathleen Jamie |
| ISBN | 0954221745 |
It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Kathleen Jamie, award winning poet, has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary...
| Author | Robert Macfarlane |
| ISBN | 0571302718 |
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...
| Author | John Lewis-Stempel |
| ISBN | 0857521454 |
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...
The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered—what is it that we're just not seeing? In this greatly anticipated sequel to Findings, prize-winning poet and renowned nature writer Kathleen Jamie takes a fresh look at her native Scottish landscapes, before sailing north into iceberg-strewn...
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
| Author | Charlie Mackesy |
| ISBN | 1529105102 |
The Sunday Times Bestseller and New York Times Bestseller.
'You will not be able to buy a more beautiful book for Christmas for somebody you love' Chris Evans
A book of hope for uncertain times.
Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their...
