In the 1920s Walter Murray rented a derelict, remote cottage in Sussex, without running water or electricity. Most of the windows were broken, it was dirty and dark. For the next year, he made his home there, making a living from drying and selling h...Lasīt vairāk
In 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, Robert Gibbings launched his home-made punt on the River Thames and began a slow journey downstream, armed with a sketchpad and a microscope. From the rivers source at the edge of the Cotswold Hills...Lasīt vairāk
More than fifty years on, The Fat of the Land remains an important and inspiring book and retains its power to make us think carefully about our own lives. Complete with Sally Seymours illustrations and cover, and with a new introduct...Lasīt vairāk
In 1931, after two decades of wandering the world, Llewelyn Powys moved into an isolated cliff-top cottage in Dorset, where he embarked on a series of essays embracing what he called the poetry of life....Lasīt vairāk
A century before Charles Darwin, decades before the French Revolution, Gilbert White began his lifelong habit of measuring and observing the world around his Hampshire home....Lasīt vairāk
Author Rowena Farre (1921-1979) was a London art student who escaped the confines of academia to lead a nomadic life as part of the community of Gypsies, travelers, tramps, and tinkers who lived on societys outskirts. Farre had two books published d...Lasīt vairāk
Joseph Conrads memoir on the voyages he made in the Golden Age of Sail, a personal meditation on the sea and its meanings by one of the twentieth centurys most important novelists....Lasīt vairāk
Pioneering book of oral history, The Pattern Under the Plough shows that even in modern societies, governed by science and technology, there are still traces of a civilisation whose beliefs were bound to the soil and whose reliance on the seasons was...Lasīt vairāk
The classic text of English landscape history, ground-breaking and hugely influential. W.G. Hoskins was one of the most original and influential British historians of the twentieth century. He realised that landscapes are...Lasīt vairāk
Bates describes a single woodland year in this enchanting book. H.E. Bates carried a woodland in his imagination. He fell under its spell as a boy growing up in the Midlands, becoming increasingly enchanted each time he st...Lasīt vairāk
Author John Wyatt (1925-2006) became enchanted with the Lake District as a child. At age 18 he left his job at the Daily Telegraph and became a forestry worker in a Lakeland wood. After serving in WWII, he took a correspondence course in writing and...Lasīt vairāk
During an outbreak of meningitis in Glasgow in the 1920s Ian Niall was sent to live with his grandparents, then tenants of North Clutag Farm, Galloway, in south-west Scotland. It was another world compared to the industrial suburbs of Clydeside...Lasīt vairāk
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Farmer and freelance journalist Bell (1901-80) wrote extensively about his experience of learning to farm and farming, but this book is compiled from journal entries he made at the end of the day during the 1940s, and documents the experience of Worl...Lasīt vairāk
Brooke (1908-1966) pursued the elusive Orchis militaris, the militaryOrchid, as an amateur naturalist. This semi-autobiographical work by a former UK military man blends poetic botanical and satirical observations. First published in 1948 by The Bodl...Lasīt vairāk
At the end of the 1960s, Kenneth Allsop, a famous television presenter and literary man-about-town, left London and settled amid the sunken lanes, ancient forests and chalk streams of west Dorset. He was at his very happiest here. He thought it...Lasīt vairāk
This work presents two books by naturalist Sir Frank Fraser Darling KBE (1903-1979), Island Years (1940) and Island Farm (1943). Darling moved himself and his family to Scotlands remote Summer Isles in the 1930s to observe wildlife; it was there tha...Lasīt vairāk
This reprint from 1879 consists of a collection of essays by nature writer Jefferies (1848-1887), who explores his feelings about the relationship between the natural and human worlds in the context of Wiltshire, England, where he grew up. He describ...Lasīt vairāk
?Phrases and images fill you with delight? This is the most honest writing Ive ever read Carol Klein. This is the story of the garden she carved from meadowland deep in the Chiltern Hills in the 1930s....Lasīt vairāk
