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NATURAL HISTORY

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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The distinguished scientist in hot pursuit of the edible, the bizarre and the lethal.

Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushroom ...

Richard Fortey

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Further investigations into the development of intelligence on earth, following his Other Minds (2018) and Metazoa (2020). Moving away from octopuses, he examines how life has been altered b... read more

Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural Wor ...

Peter Godfrey-Smith

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Albion's green pleasantries as twelve habitats - chalk downland, fens, field, woodland, heath, cliff, moor...

England: A Natural History

John Lewis-Stempel

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A tantalising cultural history of the citron and its happy descendants. Many illustrations. Gorgeous!

Citrus: A World History

David J. Mabberley

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The author's pen certainly gathers none of the green stuff! Another delightful avian ode, following The Owl, The Swan, The Swallow, The Robin...

The Starling: A Biography

Stephen Moss

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A scholarly collection of essays in memory of this remarkable man and his work. Contributions range from woodland studies in England to old-growth forests in the Eastern Alps, oak agro-fores... read more

Countryside History: The Life and Legacy of Oliver Rackham ...

Ian D. Rotherham

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A meeting with an elderly woman tending eider ducks on a remote Norwegian island is tinder, spark and fuel for this remarkable book. Rebanks is a thoughtful story-teller and a very congenial... read more

The Place of Tides

James Rebanks

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Sea-grass meadows and forests of swaying kelp; ethical and sustainable fishing - there is hope for our seas as well as the existential threat to them from deep-sea mining. In the running for... read more

What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean ...

Helen Scales

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A detailed study of Europe's thirteen species of owls - their distribution, hunting techniques, preferred habitats, behaviour, calls, even facial expressions. Illustrated with many photograp... read more

Owls of Europe: Biology, Identification and Conservation ...

Wolfgang Scherzinger

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The orthodox view - that the best custodian of land is its owner - faces vigorous challenge from the the author of The Lost Rainforests of Britain.

The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside? ...

Guy Shrubsole

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The latest in this magnificent series from Phaidon, which also includes Flower, Plant and Garden: large, with magnificent photographs and illustrations.

Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World

Phaidon Editors

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An exceptional examination of the ways to fight global warming, by a professor of earth science at Stanford University, sharp enough to dispel the paralysis of climate apathy.

Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere ...

Rob Jackson

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Leaf by leaf, exquisitely painted by Susan Ogilvy; some will remember her delightful paintings of nests a few years ago.

Overleaf: An Album of British Trees

Richard Ogilvy

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For the love of fog... and sea mists and haar. Its alteration of our senses too. Some photographs.

Chasing Fog: Finding Enchantment in a Cloud

Laura Pashby

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