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A Brush With Nature: Reflections on the Natural World
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Described as ‘Britain’s greatest living nature writer’, Richard Mabey has revealed his passion for the natural world in eloquent stories for BBC Wildlife Magazine. This volume features his favourite pieces and presents a fascinating and inspiring view of the changing natural landscape in which we live.Peppered throughout with references to the heritage of nature writing, and great writers from Richard Jefferies and John Clare to Roger Deakin and Robert MacFarlane, A Brush With Nature is part memoir, part nature journal, part social history, giving us a unique insight into a nature lover’s reflections over a quarter of a century.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.218 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.9 × 12.6 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 256 |
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| Year Published | 2014-7-10 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1849908257 |
| About The Author | Richard Mabey is the father of modern nature writing in the UK. Since 1972 he has written some forty influential books, including the prize-winning Nature Cure, Gilbert White: a Biography, and Flora Britannica. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Vice-President of the Open Spaces Society. He spent the first half of his life amongst the Chiltern beechwoods, and now lives in Norfolk in a house surrounded by ash trees. |
| Review Quote | A golden evocation of flora and fauna, places, people and perspectives. |
| Other text | Getting hold of Brush With Nature in early March was like being given an unseasonable spell of warm weather in which everything in the natural world suddenly bursts into life … Each [essay] feels like an outing, a trip with a supremely knowledgeable yet unpompous guide to somewhere new and fascinating. |
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