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Remarkable Birds

Mark Avery

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Balkan transhumance: in her fourth book on life in the Balkans, Kassabova lives and travels with the Karakachan, a small group of Greek-speaking nomadic pastoralists in the Pirin mountains.

Anima

Kapka Kassabova

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Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination

Robert Macfarlane

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'Mountains of the Mind' (pbk, ?8.99), about the cultural history of mountains, was very highly regarded. His new book is about the remaining wild places in Britain

The Wild Places

Robert Macfarlane

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A beautiful little hardback from Little Toller. On the animals - real and imagined - of the city of floating dreams.

A Venetian Bestiary

Jan Morris

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Greed, exploitation and imperialism - the havoc wrought by a single orchid root that arrived in Britain from Brazil - by mistake - in 1818.

The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession ...

Sarah Bilston

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The wonders of the deep, by a national treasure and his long-term collaborator. Illustrated.

Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness

Sir David Attenborough

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Prof. Farrier is consolingly positive about our relationship with our world.

Nature’s Genius: Evolution’s Lessons for a Changing Planet ...

David Farrier

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Peat bogs in all their complex, seeping glory.

Peatlands: A Journey Between Land and Water

Alys Fowler

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Macfarlane's powerful new book is a beautiful torrent of vivid language and research - and also his most political work so far. As we'd expect from this remarkable writer, he ranges from the... read more

Is a River Alive?

Robert Macfarlane

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A history of our wooded past - the 'wildwood' of our earliest hunter-gatherer ancestors, the neolithic agricultural clearances and the many centuries since of timber consumption.

Forgotten Forests: Twelve Thousand Years of British and Irish Woodland ...

Jonathan Mullard

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Hermit-like, Nicholson built himself a shed in a scruffy field from which to observe and listen to the birds thriving in that patch of wilderness.

Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood

Adam Nicolson

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Recent essays by the author of Orwell's Roses, Wanderlust and others.

No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain ...

Rebecca Solnit

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A global approach that also considers traditional and modern forest stewardship in the face of environmental degradation.

The Great Tree Story: How Forests Have Shaped Our World ...

Levison Wood

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English Pastoral

James Rebanks

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The Wood that Built London: A Human History of the Great North Wood ...

C.J. Schuler

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When everyone walked: the network of footpaths and bridleways that connected rural communities and criss-crossed the land unchanged for centuries until the dominance of the internal combusti... read more

The English Path

Kim Taplin

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Hugely entertaining historical excursion into eternity - and into the pockets of a curious bunch of collectors and astronomers.

The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time ...

Helen Gordon

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In this philosophical, discursive, many-layered diary, the author wanders the coastal city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu.

Intertidal: The Hidden World Between Land and Sea

Yuvan Aves

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The Reverend CH-P finds himself deep in Savernake forest, perhaps a sandwich short of a picnic but with his gentle and astute marbles intact.

Lost in the Forest: Notes on Not Belonging from the English Countrysid ...

Colin Heber-Percy

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The over-grazed, debt-ridden farm is on Bodmin Moor, with a vestige of temperate rainforest still remaining. Merlin H-T, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan and son of the renowned explorer,... read more

Our Oaken Bones: Reviving a Family, a Farm and Britain’s Ancient ...

Merlin Hanbury-Tenison

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Egg-mimicry is one of the cuckoo's clever ways; another is the female's striped undercarriage, like a sparrowhawk's, which help drive dunnocks and warblers away from their nests long enough ... read more

The Curious Life of the Cuckoo

John Lewis-Stempel

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The interior decoration of the bowerbird, the strutting scuffles of black grouse: the intricacies of sexual selection.

Birds, Sex and Beauty: The extraordinary implications of Charles Darwi ...

Matt Ridley

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A large-format, illustrated guide that includes 'scientific' depictions by Caspar David Friedrich, Constable et alia as well as photographs. Handsome.

Clouds: How to Identify Nature’s Most Fleeting Forms ...

Edward Graham

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Here are artichokes, sea holly, pelargoniums, cyclamen, columbines, astrantia, auriculas and many others. Beautifully illustrated by one of our finest printmakers; a companion to their Book ... read more

The Book of Garden Flowers

Angie Lewin

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How the classification of nature made its way into literature, and how these books disseminated new ideas. Looks in particular at the scientific practice of Banks and Solander.

Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820 ...

Edwin David Rose

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The 1,500-mile watershed stretching from Austria to Romania is still home to a third of Europe's wildlife, including lynx, chamois, bears, and bison that roam its high alpine meadows and its... read more

Walking Europe’s Last Wilderness: A Journey through the Carpathi ...

Nick Thorpe

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Dalton, who has worked for over a decade as a parliamentary and Foreign Office policy advisor and speech-writer, found herself raising a leveret in lockdown. Her minimalist approach to this ... read more

Raising Hare

Chloe Dalton

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Trees, their branches and blossom, as we've rarely seen, by a collaborative duo based in Barcelona. These two artists play with our memories, their photographs - exquisitely muted and carefu... read more

On Listening to Trees

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Yes, you’ll be relieved and happy to hear we now stock the Apian Gazette, the Ministry of Bees’ official bulletin.

Apian Gazette

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A first biography of the late Ronald Blythe, author of Akenfield and many other books and essays. His friends included John and Christine Nash (in whose house he came to live), Cedric Morris... read more

Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe ...

Ian Collins

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In 1811, architect, stone mason and shell-fancier George Perry published Conchology or the Natural History of Shells, illustrated with his own ravishing and sometimes fanciful watercolours. ... read more

Beautiful Shells

Mark Carnall

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Their history, collections and scientific importance. Large format, many illustrations.

The Botanic Garden: The World’s Greatest Botanical Sanctuaries ...

Ambra Edwards

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Scholarly mix of botanical illustration, fine art and archival material that looks at political and ethical dimensions of English gardens in the Georgian and Victorian eras. Beautifully illu... read more

The Dominion of Flowers: Botanical Art and Global Plant Relations ...

Mark Laird

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A journey through twenty-six countries in pursuit of Olea europaea and its kindred. Many photographs and an informed text about the history of the olive, its domestication, cultivars, cultur... read more

The Olive Tree Around the World

Charles Quest-Ritson

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Human folly and the aspiration to conquer nature and one another: the author - a Yale professor - makes a compelling exposition of the relationship between empire and environmental destructi... read more

The Burning Earth: A Material History of the Last 500 Years ...

Sunil Amrith

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