Published In Aid of BBC Children in Need *The Countryfile Calendar has brought nature into our homes for nearly three decades, and now this comprehensive collection captures the essence of each season, bringing together viewers' photographs of the British countryside throughout the year.
Bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben, invites you to reconnect with natureAs soon as we step out of the door, nature surrounds.
Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet presents an unconventional collection of ideas, practices, and ways of living together with the potential to enable long-term human and planetary health.
This fully updated special edition of the classic complete guide to the edible species that grow around us includes a new foreword from the author and a plate section with identification guides for all major species.
Mushrooms, the first of a major new series of books on British natural history, provides a remarkable insight into the natural and human world of fungi.
We have tried our best in this scientific book to prepare analysis regarding great work of literature or even some newly written works by some postmodern poets in a new and psychological way; opening doors into the complex networks of the mind; proving once more that our imagination and creativity can outweigh the rigid AI and its cronies.
Frieda Hughes's poems and paintings reflect her early years in Devon and Yorkshire, and her later experiences when living in London, Australia, and most recently, Wales.
Set in Glasgow in the 1930s, Young James Herriot is the fascinating story of Herriot s formative years at veterinary college, recounting the tales behind his calling to work with animals and his early friendships.
In 1944, at the age of five, William Graves was taken from England to the delightful mountain village of Deya in Majorca, where his father - the poet Robert Graves - had returned with his new family to the place he had lived with Laura Riding before the war.
In this study of the problems of social organization in a rural community of Alberta, a drought-afflicted wheat-growing area centring round the town of Hanna is described as it appeared to the sociologist in 1946.
Explore the wonders of the natural world with Chris Packham and the RSPBThe natural world is on your doorstep; whether you live in the heart of a concrete jungle, or on top of a mountain - so why not explore it?
The definitive guide to hundreds of Britain's most outstanding gardens, in the care of the National TrustThe National Trust has the finest collection of gardens in the United Kingdom.
Take a journey down winding lanes and Roman roads in this witty and informative guide to the meanings behind the names of England's towns and villages.
Dartmoor explores the complex and fascinating history of one of southern England's greatest National Parks, an area of enormous interest to naturalists and tourists alike.
Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved.
** Longlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize** A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book Annie ProulxA way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time: the eclipse of the rural world by the urban.
'Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas' ROBERT MACFARLANE'An instant classic of British nature-writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHA few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland.
Wild Flowers of Chalk and Limestone will urge many to follow in the author's footsteps in search of the rich flora which make our chalk downs and limestone cliffs so fascinating to explore.
Birds and bird lore provide a fascinating window onto our social and cultural history, and can tell us much about our changing relationship with the British landscape, our people and society.
A humorous and very personal guide written by Bill Bailey about his favourite British birds, complete with drawings, notes and cartoons by the comedian himself.
A collection about motherhood at a time of continuous crisis - from one of Ireland's most important poets'Everyone should be reading her' OBSERVER'One of the most accomplished poets of her generation'GUARDIANThese poems emerge from the experience of being a single mother in Belfast, and against a background of seemingly continuous crisis.
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATIONWinner of the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Book Shop Literary Prize splendid Guardian visionary New StatesmanRebirding takes the long view of Britain s wildlife decline, from the early taming of our landscape and its long-lost elephants and rhinos, to fenland drainage, the removal of cornerstone species such as wild cattle, horses, beavers and boar and forward in time to the intensification of our modern landscapes and the collapse of invertebrate populations.
In the 1960s Geoffrey Grigson travelled around England writing the story of the secret landscape that is all around us, if only we take the time to look and see.
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATIONWinner of the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Book Shop Literary Prize splendid Guardian visionary New StatesmanRebirding takes the long view of Britain s wildlife decline, from the early taming of our landscape and its long-lost elephants and rhinos, to fenland drainage, the removal of cornerstone species such as wild cattle, horses, beavers and boar and forward in time to the intensification of our modern landscapes and the collapse of invertebrate populations.
An exquisite, full colour country almanac by artist Catherine Hyde, following the phases of the moon and a hare's journey throughout the twelve months of the year in a lyrical tribute to the natural world.
