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

8 best books like The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers (Adam Nicolson): Otter Country: In Search of the Wild Otter, The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland, Underland, The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence, Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey, Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field, Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees, A Wood of One's Own

Otter Country: In Search of the Wild Otter
AuthorMiriam Darlington
ISBN1847084850
Over the course of a year, Miriam Darlington travelled around Britain in search of wild otters: from her home in Devon to the wilds of Scotland; to Cumbria, Wales, Northumberland, Cornwall, Somerset and the River Lea; to her childhood home near the Ouse, the source of her watery obsession.


Otter...
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...
Underland
AuthorRobert Macfarlane
ISBN0393242145
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...
The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence
AuthorNeil Ansell
ISBN1472247116
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...
Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey
AuthorMadeleine Bunting
ISBN1847085172
Few landscapes are as iconic as the islands off the north-western Scottish coast. On the outer edge of the British Isles and facing the Atlantic Ocean, the Hebrides form part of Europe's boundary. Because of their unique position in the Atlantic archipelago, they have been at the centre of a network...
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...
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
AuthorThor Hanson
ISBN0465052614
From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round.
Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships...
A Wood of One's Own
AuthorRuth Pavey
ISBN0715652230
After years of living in London's urban jungle, Ruth Pavey dreamt of reconnecting with the British countryside. In pursuit of a haven from the unrest of city life, she embarked on a journey to find the perfect plot of land on which to plant a wood. But creating this would-be sanctuary proved more daunting...
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