The essential and defining new collection of the best British nature writing Tim Dee has brought together a wonderous array of talent for this life-affirming, often magical anthology ObserverWe are living in the anthropocene an epoch where everything is being determined by the activities of just one soft-skinned, warm-blooded, short-lived, pedestrian species.
'A life-affirming book' Daily Mail'An uplifting personal story of a year lived like no other' Daily ExpressTwo days after her husband of sixty-seven years dies, nonagenarian Miss Norma is diagnosed with cancer.
A SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2021* Shortlisted for the 2021 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize* A critically-acclaimed Sunday Times, Spectator and Independent Book of 2020* Now with colour photography by Michael Turek'Richly absorbing.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A propulsive, soulful story of mourning and gratitude - and an intimate portrait of one woman's sojourn in the wilderness between life and death.
Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements.
'Bill Bryson on two wheels' IndependentScaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9,000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike.
An enthralling voyage of discovery to meet a rare and mysterious bird of prey that puzzled Darwin, fascinates modern-day falconers, and carries secrets of our planet's deep past in its family history.
'Charlotte Higgins's Red Thread is a masterwork' Ali SmithA thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through myth, art, literature, history, archaeology and memoir.
On the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo discover a fascinating primary source: Walter Scott's accounts of his journey to the battlefieldIn the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo tourists flocked from Britain to witness the scene of the most important conflict of their generation.
When Elspeth Huxley s pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat.
**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**'A master nature writer' (New York Times) provides the ultimate natural, social and cultural history of the Arctic landscape.
WINNER: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER READER AWARD FOR BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016WINNER: BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARD FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR BIOGRAPHY 2016Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country.
'If you loved Under the Tuscan Sun, you ll love this' Red Magazine Every week on a Thursday evening, a group of four rural Italian women gather in an old stone house in the hills above Italy s Orvieto.
A profoundly satisfying read Financial TimesIn Field Notes from the Edge, the acclaimed writer of the Guardian's 'Country Diary', Paul Evans, takes us on a journey through the in-between spaces of Nature such as strandlines, mudflats, cliff tops and caves where one wilderness is on the verge of becoming another and all things are possible.
This vintage book contains a fascinating account of a six week-long tour through France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Summer shone late over Western Europe in 1939, but in Icaria the sun had done its work by the fourth week of August figs bursting, grapes heavy under their bloom, and the paths on the hillsides powdering beneath one s feet.
Gaspar de Portola de Rovira (1716-1784) was a Spanish soldier, governor of Baja and Alta California (1767-1770), explorer and founder of San Diego and Monterey.
A must read for anybody with an interest in the ancient history of Great Britain, a well researched and in-depth account of life for people living around British lakes thousands of years ago.
Toshikazu Kase was a Japanese civil servant and spent his adult life as a career diplomat, having trained at Amherst and Harvard university Kase was part of Japanese delegation sent onboard the USS Missouri to sign the Japanese surrender to end World War II.
First published in 1908, "e;Florida Enchantments"e; contains various interesting and entertaining accounts on time spent on and around the natural waterways of Florida, USA.
