Harris' wondrously eclectic mind has previously produced Weatherland and Romantic Moderns. Here she weaves stories of the Sussex landscape of her youth, with threads of Blake, Milton, Consta... read more
The abundance of the Cambrian explosion after half a billion years of an ice-bound world... the author is a geologist so quite at ease with unimaginable stretches of time.
A memoir of inner and outer pilgrimage that begins with PS quitting her travel-writing job, leaving her partner and cutting short her Camino de Santiago to return home to North Wales, and th... read more
Fritz D?rries was a German entomologist who first travelled to Siberia as a young man in 1877. He went on to spend a total of twenty-two years there, encountering tigers, bandits, vipers and... read more
Saki's Tobermory could have taught Dr Brown a thing or two but sadly he did not survive to tell his tale (tail?). Apparently cats evolved their meows to communicate specifically with humans,... read more
Linnaeus riding through Lapland; frost fairs on the Thames; courtship in the snow in Japan; Tove Jansson on her childhood; snippets of Beth Chatto. An anthology of wintry delights.
This lovely anthology of the work of the writer, artist and wood engraver famous for The Farmer's Year and Four Hedges is beautifully produced, and includes some of her lesser-known writing ... read more
A year on the farm in North Devon that Morpurgo knew well and where he set War Horse, with a dozen poems by Ted Hughes who was a neighbour. First published in 1979, this is another valuable ... read more
Henderson lends an ear to the world around him, to both the audible and the inaudible... the rustling of the Northern Lights, the sound of desert sands, the subterranean boom of a volcano...... read more
Erudition and curiosity impel this vivid, detailed portrait by the world's foremost expert on Linnaeus: this biography won several prizes when it was first published in Sweden in 2019.
In two volumes: the photographs in part 1 were taken in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020. Those in part 2 were taken at a sanctuary in Bolivia in 2022. (Each volume is available individually,... read more
The extraordinary woman who wandered the world gathering herbal lore settled in a cabin in the New Forest for three years in the 1950s, where she raised her children.
An unpicking of the anthropocentric view of the natural world that has bedevilled the West since Aristotle, and whose consequences we now reap: by the author of Dadland, winner of the Costa ... read more
This intensely lyrical and radical 'memoir' of the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland was written in the last years of WW2, but only published in 1977. The long-overlooked Modernist novelist an... read more
Encompasses natural events and their consequences on a vast scale, showing how these have shaped human responses, trade, empires... Particularly trenchant as we try to understand climate cha... read more
Cumbrian farms from the Lake District to the Solway Marches: magnificent photography and compelling conversations about contemporary agricultural issues.
Contributors incl. Susie Orbach and Merlin Sheldrake - who once grew mushrooms on a copy of his book Entangled Life, cooked and ate them, thus eating his words.
Returning to her native Bulgaria, the acclaimed writer explores the valley of the Mesta and encounters its inhabitants and their traditions of plant-lore. Her previous books have been outsta... read more
A selection of the Venerable Blythe's columns, with contributions by Rowan Williams, Richard Mabey, Julia Blackburn, Ian Collins et al. Inquisitive, gentle and modest, but surprising and fun... read more
A collection of essays by the late traveller and acute observer of nature: "The central project of my adult life as a writer is to know and love what we have been given, and to urge others t... read more
Unusual and interesting plants photographed and described in their natural habitats, often in very remote places - anyone remember the heady uplands of tulip and meadows of fritillary in Gar... read more
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville and Pierre Magnol to Sir David Attenborough, via Lady Gaga... The author is, amongst other roles, the president of the Linnaean Society.
The Scottish Highlands are facing climate chaos too, despite being so far north, and its effects are already being felt. Crumley's meditations on the seasons in one volume.
A collection of essays about this most extraordinary C17th woman, artist, traveller and naturalist; looks at her methods and materials, her journey to Suriname, her entomological studies, he... read more
England still has a greater concentration of ancient oaks than the rest of Europe combined. The Dutch dendrologist's explanation and historical survey is compelling.
The Pulitzer-winning novelist is unflinching in her account of mankind's destruction of the environment for commercial gain - from the C16th English fenlands to Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire ... read more