The Green Road into the Trees: An Exploration of England

7 best books like The Green Road into the Trees: An Exploration of England (Hugh Thomson): The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland, The Body in Question, The Wandering Earth, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life, Designing With Web Standards, Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills, The Sixth Gun, Vol. 1: Cold Dead Fingers

The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland
AuthorJohn Lewis-Stempel
ISBN0857523260
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...
The Body in Question
AuthorJill Ciment
5 hours, 26 minutes

From the author of Heroic Measures (“Smart and funny and completely surprising . . . I loved every page” —Ann Patchett), Act of God (“A feat of literary magic”—Booklist) and, with Amy Hempel, The Hand That Feeds You (“An unnerving, elegant page-turner”...
The Wandering Earth
AuthorLiu Cixin
First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000.

I’ve never seen the night, nor seen a star; I’ve seen neither spring, nor fall, nor winter. I was born at the end of the Reining Age, just as the Earth’s rotation was coming to a final halt.

The Sun is about to unleash a helium flash,...
AuthorKim Addonizio
ISBN0143128469
"Somewhere between Jo Ann Beard's The Boys of My Youth and Amy Schumer's stand-up exists Kim Addonizio's style of storytelling . . . at once biting and vulnerable, nostalgic without ever veering off into sentimentality." --Refinery29

"Always vital, clever, and seductive, Addonizio is...
Designing With Web Standards
AuthorJeffrey Zeldman
ISBN0735712018
You code. And code. And code. You build only to rebuild. You focus on making your site compatible with almost every browser or wireless device ever put out there. Then along comes a new device or a new browser, and you start all over again.

You can get off the merry-go-round.

It's time...
Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills
AuthorNeil Ansell
ISBN0241145007
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,...
The Sixth Gun, Vol. 1: Cold Dead Fingers
AuthorCullen Bunn
ISBN1934964603
THIS IS NOT THE OLD WEST AS WE KNOW IT.

In the passing shadow of the Civil War, defiant Confederate General Oleander Hume waits to be let loose, too evil and warped to die, too mad with bloodlust to let go of his black magic.

He hungers for his lost and most precious possession, an ancient...
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