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  • av Richard Mabey
    260,-

    In Beechcomings Richard Mabey set out to uncover our relationship with trees, and specifically the beech, their significance in nature and meaning in folklore.

  • - A Liverpool Shadowplay
    av Jeff Young
    186,-

    In this highly acclaimed memoir the writer Jeff Young takes us on a journey through the Liverpool of his youth, down the back alleys and through arcades, through arcades and oyster bars into vanished tenements.

  • av John Burnside
    186,-

  • av Richard Mabey
    260,-

    A new special edition of the seminal, bestselling book, with a new foreword by the author and a new jacket by the artist Michael Kirkman, to celebrate the author's 80th birthday.

  • - Back to the land in wartime England
    av Ken Worpole
    196,-

    In March 1943 a group of Christian pacifists took possession of a vacant farm in Frating in Essex. There they established a working community. Frating Hall Farm provided a settlement and livelihood for individuals and families, and a temporary sanctuary for refugees and prisoners of war. This is the story of the community and its legacy.

  • av Simon Moreton
    280,-

  • av Geoffrey Grigson
    190,-

    Originally published in 1948, An English Farmhouse is Geoffrey Grigson's careful survey of the old English farmhouse and its associated buildings. Grigson paints a vivid picture of rural life in the preceding centuries, and creates a delicate weave of social history.

  • - Walking to Lubeck with J. S. Bach
    av Horatio Clare
    146,-

    In this extraordinary travelogue Horatio Clare recreates the walk that J S Bach, then an unknown composer and organ teacher, made in the depths of winter in 1705 across Germany to Lubeck. This was the pivotal point in the young composer's life, when he began his journey to becoming the master of the Baroque.

  • - Notes on the art of calendars
    av Alexandra Harris
    160,-

    This small book brings together some of the beautiful art that has, for centuries, gone into the creation of almanacs and calendars. Alexandra Harris' text shows us how, through time, humans have sought to divide time into portions and how traditions associated with each month have made their way into the art of calendars and almanacs.

  • - Voices from the Winter Fields
    av Neil Sentance
    160,-

    Ridge and Furrow continues the project, begun in the acclaimed Water and Sky, to chart in prose the voices of a seldom recorded people and place. This is a delicate portrayal of one family in rural Lincolnshire in the twentieth century as they struggle with war, poverty and the great changes in agriculture.

  • av Oliver Rackham
    190,-

    The Helford River, Cornwall is a place of wonder and delight: one of the very few places in England where ancient woodland meets the sea. Rackham brings to life the curious industrial and cultural history of this unique area, and shows how these woods have survived and what the future may have in store.

  • - Subterranean writings; from Dartmoor to the Arctic Circle
     
    200,-

    A collection of essays about geology and the ground beneath our feet first heard on BBC Radio Three, from some of our leading landscape and nature writers. Contributors include John Burnside, Alan Garner, Linda Cracknell, Sara Maitland and Esther Woolfson.

  • av Dorothy Hartley
    196,-

    First published in 1939, Made in England is a book about the people and crafts of the cottage industries of old England, written by the social historian, writer, illustrator and photographer Dorothy Hartley. A companion volume to her acclaimed book Food in England.

  • av Paul Evans
    130,-

  • av Richard Skelton
    130,-

  • av A. G. Street
    210,-

    A pen portrait of a farming life in southern England and in western Canada.

  • av Horatio Clare
    150,-

    A search for a bird on the edge of extinction.

  • av Marcus Sedgwick
    160,-

    Like the six sides of a snowflake, the book has six chapters which explore the art, literature and science of snow, as well as Marcus Sedgwick's own experiences and memories.

  • av Iain Sinclair
    146,-

    Provoked by the strange, enigmatic series of paintings, Afal du Brogwyr (Black Apple of Gower), made by the artist Ceri Richards, Sinclair leaves behind the familiar, 'murky elsewheres' of his life in Hackney, carrying an envelope of B&W photos and old postcards, along with fragments of memory that neither confirm nor deny whether he belongs here.

  • av John Fowles
    200,-

    As lyrical and precise as Fowles' novels, The Tree is a provocative meditation on the connection between the natural world and human creativity, and also a rejection of the idea that nature should be tamed for human purpose.

  • av Edward Thomas
    189,-

    In mid to late March 1913 Edward Thomas took a bicycle ride from Clapham to the Quantock Hills. The poet recorded his journey; In Pursuit of Spring was published in 1914. One of his most important works, it stands as an elegy for a lost world. Thomas photographed much of what he saw. The prints are now published for the very first time.

  • - A Memoir
    av Dexter Petley
    196,-

    Peopled by extraordinary characters, Love, Madness, Fishing is an unsentimental biography of growing up on the Kent/Sussex border in the 60s and 70s, told through the author's love for fishing.

  • av Kay Syrad & Chris Drury
    230,-

    Food is fundamental to life. The way we produce it is the most pressing issue of our times. In recent years, several family-run farms in the downlands of West Dorset have decided to radically change their approach to working the land.

  • av Oliver Rackham
    200,-

  • av Gilbert White
    200,-

    A century before Charles Darwin, decades before the French Revolution, Gilbert White began his lifelong habit of measuring and observing the world around his Hampshire home.

  • av Jocelyn Brooke
    146,-

    The Military Orchid is a comic masterpiece - a blend of botany, memoir and satire; the story of Jocelyn Brooke's obsession with one flower - the Orchis Militaris, the military orchid.

  • av Kenneth Allsop
    186,-

    Kenneth Allsop, a famous television presenter and literary man-about-town, left London and settled in ancient forests and chalk streams of west Dorset. In this book his writings speaks in defense of the natural world and stands firmly against the unchecked exploitation of the land.

  • av H. E. Bates
    180,-

    Set in Kent, the author returns to those trees of his youth to breath life into the changing character of a single woodland year. He reveals how precious they are to the English countryside.

  • av Frank Fraser Darling
    246,-

    Unhappily land-locked in his early adult life, the authors' fortunes changed when he began visiting Scotland's west coast in the 1930s. He made temporary homes with his family on some of the remotest Hebridean islands so he could study the habits of grey seals and seabirds. This book tells about his life on island.

  • av Richard Jefferies
    186,-

    Traces the course of a spring which rises on an Iron Age hillfort and gradually broadens into a brook, flows through a nearby village and hamlet, skirts a solitary farmhouse and its orchard, before draining into water meadows and a lake where the wildfowl nest. This book presents the details of this ancient landscape, its people and the habitats.

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