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
Seed, leaf, bark, wood, flowers, fruits, symbiosis - and we who depend on them in our fragile and entwined ecosystem. Lavishly photographed and fascinating.
An extraordinary tale of patience and determination: Slaght has dedicated his life to save Blakiston's fish owl, a rare denizen of the taiga. His book is a revelation of the contemporary Rus... read more
Professor Simard has spent a life-time in dendrological research, looking at the ways trees communicate and trade with one another that have been popularised in recent years by Peter Wohlle... read more
Tangled, mossy, temperate rainforest still prevails in some valleys and creases of these isles - though it seems hard to imagine after these months of drought... And the author's name is of ... 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.
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
This is an astonishing book that will change our understanding of the world in dizzying ways. Wohlleben's 'wood-wide web' is but a part of the phantasmagoric abundance of fungal life that Sh... read more
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.
Whales, salmon, dragon flies, wildebeest, Arctic terns and many other creatures perform annual feats of migration. Illustrated with Sewell's charming watercolours. Ages 7-12.
A deep dive into the mythologies and economies of the chasm. Not just about giant squid, but humanity's harvesting of the depths for medical and financial benefits.
Fascinating study of our relationship with birds, from hunting to providing us with food, as messengers, guardians, omens, deities, metaphors, symbols and inspiration. Many illustrations.