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Notes From Walnut Tree Farm

10 best books like Notes From Walnut Tree Farm (Roger Deakin): Wild: An Elemental Journey, Walking Home: A Poet's Journey, The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes, Beechcombings: The narratives of trees, Crow Country, The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals, Findings, Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water, Holloway, Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field

Wild: An Elemental Journey
AuthorJay Griffiths
In Wild, Jay Griffiths describes an extraordinary odyssey through wildernesses of earth, ice, water, and fire. A poetic consideration of the tender connection between human society and the wild, the book is by turns passionate, political, funny, and harrowing. It is also a journey into that greatest...
Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
AuthorSimon Armitage
ISBN0571249884
In summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other side of the Scottish border. He resolved to tackle it the other way round: through beautiful and bleak terrain,...
The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
AuthorPeter Matthiessen
ISBN0865476578
“You don’t have to be a ‘craniac’ . . . to appreciate [this book] . . . All you really need is a passion for prose as good as it gets.” —Chicago Tribune

In legend, cranes often figure as harbingers of heaven and omens of longevity and good fortune. And in nature, they are an “umbrella...
Beechcombings: The narratives of trees
AuthorRichard Mabey
ISBN1844139204
In 1987, the greatest English storm for three centuries laid flat fifteen million trees across southern England and devastated a nation of tree-lovers. The storm marked a turning point in our perception of trees and a dawning realisation that they have lives of their own, beyond the roles and images...
Crow Country
AuthorMark Cocker
ISBN0224076019
One night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk home on their way to roost in the Yare valley. From the moment he watched the multitudes blossom as a mysterious dark flower above the night woods, these gloriously commonplace...
The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals
AuthorPatrick Barkham
ISBN1847081274
A lovely account of the butterfly season in the UK of 2009 which is roughly March to September in which Patrick Barkham searches out the resident species, 59 at the last count. It was thoroughly enjoyable though, as these books always seem to do to me, it made me envious of the freedom to pootle around the...
Findings
AuthorKathleen Jamie
ISBN0954221745
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...
Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water
AuthorKathleen Dean Moore
ISBN0156004615
Why is this book not famous? I stumbled across it in a used bookstore, and anyway I am educated now.

"All along the McKenzie River Trail, there must be things we do not see, because they have no names. If we knew a word for the dark spaces between pebbles on the river bottom, if we had a name for the nests...
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...
Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
AuthorJean Sprackland
ISBN0224087452
This is the ultimate beachcomber's book. A series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool and Liverpool, Strands is about what is lost and buried then discovered, about all the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, about flotsam and jetsam,...
The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer Diaries: The Complete Works of J. A. Baker
AuthorJ.A. Baker
ISBN0007395906
Reissue of J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing.

Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is set on the flat marshes of the Essex coast, where J A Baker spent a long winter looking and writing about the...
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 Tomb in Seville: Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War
AuthorNorman Lewis
ISBN0786716878
While the rumblings of oncoming war shook a divided Spain, Norman Lewis and his brother-in-law Eugene Corvaja traveled through the Spanish countryside to the family tomb in Seville. Nearly seventy years later, in prose that is witty, understated, and poignant, Lewis describes the duo's travels...
Common Ground
AuthorRob 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,...
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
AuthorOlivia Laing
ISBN1847677924
To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite...
The Green Road into the Trees: An Exploration of England
AuthorHugh Thomson
ISBN1848093322
From the very centre of England - literally, as his village is furthest from the sea - he travels to its outermost edges. The Green Road into the Trees is a journey made rich by the characters he meets along the way. And the ways he takes are the old ways, the drover-paths and tracks, the paths and ditches half...
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...
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