Nature's Child
John Lister-Kaye
'As I write, Hermione's twelfth year is drawing to a close. The years of innocence are waning. But we have had the good fortune to live through a...
Crow Country
Mark Cocker
One night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk home on their way to roost in the Yare...
Wildwood
Roger Deakin
'Wildwood' is a remarkable celebration of the transforming magic of trees, exploring the 'fifth element' of wood as it exists in nature, in our souls, in our culture...
Mountains of the Mind
Robert Macfarlane
Why do so many feel compelled to risk their lives climbing mountains? During the climbing season, one person a day dies in the Alps, and more people die...
At the Water's Edge
John Lister-Kaye
For the last 30 years John Lister-Kaye has taken the same circular walk from his home deep in a Scottish glen up to a small hill loch. Each...
Song of the Rolling Earth
John Lister-Kaye
Conservationist and naturalist John Lister-Kaye, founder of the Aigas Field Centre, writes about his life in the glens, the wildlife that surrounds him and the primeval magical exchange...
The Ring of Bright Water Trilogy
Gavin Maxwell
Fifty years ago Gavin Maxwell went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on the west coast of Scotland. A haven for wildlife - he...
The Peregrine
J.A. Baker
From autumn to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern...
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek' is a book that has continued to change people's lives for over 30 years. A passionate and poetic reflection on the mystery of creation...
Beautiful Swimmers
William W. Warner
William W. Warner exhibits his skill as a naturalist and as a writer in this Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the Atlantic blue crab and its Chesapeake Bay territory....
Nature Cure
Richard Mabey
In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression. For two years, he did little more than lie...
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