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A Brush With Nature: Reflections on the Natural World (F.S.) by Richard Mabey
Category: Animals & Nature
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. ...Show more
A Brush with Nature : 25 Years of Personal Reflections on Nature by Richard Mabey
Category: Science & Natural History
This definitive collection brings together his favourite pieces and presents a fascinating and inspiring view of the changing natural landscape in which we live. With marvellously observed detail, Mabey recalls following a barn owl he'd encountered while walking near his home in Norfolk, and talks of st ...Show more
A Good Parcel of English Soil: The Metropolitan Line (Penguin Underground Lines) by Richard Mabey
Category: Travel | Series: Penguin Underground Lines
Richard Mabey, one of Britain's leading nature writers, looks in A Good Parcel of English Soil at the relationship between city and country, and how this brings out the power of nature - part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground, as Tfl celebrates 150 years of t ...Show more
Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees by Richard Mabey
Category: Gardening Landscape Plants
Richard Mabey's new book is about beech trees - but also, of course, about numerous other issues, including global warming and the importance of trees in the landscape. Trees are the largest and most significant organisms on our planet; and this is Mabey's most poetic, most enjoyable, most profound and ...Show more
Dreams of the Good Life: The Life of Flora Thompson and the Creation of Lark Rise to Candleford by Richard Mabey
Category: Biography
While the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, Flora Thompson's much-loved portrait of life in the English countryside, has inspired a hit television series, relatively little is known about the author herself. In this highly original book, bestselling biographer and nature writer Richard Mabey sympathetica ...Show more
Fencing Paradise : The uses and abuses of plants by Richard Mabey (illus Sue Hill)
Category: Science & Natural History
In this remarkable journal of visits to Eden, Mabey transports his reader from Cornwall to the Mediterranean to the Tropics, from Old World to New, from present to personal memory, to new perspectives on our collective artistic and emotional past. Sensuous and evocative, exquisitely written, his new boo ...Show more
Food For Free by Mabey, Richard
Category: Food & Wine
A complete guide to help you safely identify edible species that grow around us, together with detailed artworks, field identification notes and recipes. First published in 1972, this updated edition of Richard Mabey's cult bestseller has been revised to reflect the ever-increasing eco-awareness and pop ...Show more
Food for Free by Richard Mabey
Category: Home and Garden
Fans of Food for Free will be delighted at this new format -- ideal for carrying in a rucksack. Over 100 edible plants are featured together with recipes and other interesting culinary information. With details on how to pick, when to pick and regulations on picking. This new format of a best-selling ti ...Show more
Food for Free - 50th Anniversary Edition by Richard Mabey
Category: Food Cooking Wine
This fully updated special edition of the classic complete guide to the edible species that grow around us includes a new foreword from the author and a plate section with identification guides for all major species.Originally published in 1972, Richard Mabey's classic foraging guide has never been out ...Show more
Gilbert White: A Biography of the Author of "The Natural History of Selborne" by Richard Mabey
Category: Biography Memoir
When the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White (1720-93) wrote The Natural History of Selborne (1789), he created one of the greatest and most influential natural history works of all time, his detailed observations about birds and animals providing the cornerstones of modern ecology. In this award-winnin ...Show more
Nature Cure by Richard Mabey
Category: Animals & Nature
In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression. For two years, he did little more than lie in bed with his face to a wall. He could neither work nor play. His money ran out. Worst of all, the natural world - which since childhood ha ...Show more