The curious and vanishing world of ice in Greenland, told through 24 hours in the life of an arctic researcher

A post-colonial history of the destruction of the Fens of eastern England.

An inspiring exploration of the power and beauty of British weather in all its wild and stormy forms

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhen Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia was published in 1977 it heralded the arrival of a startling new talent in British literature. All readers recognised its timeless quality - Auberon Waugh went as far as to call it `a classic'.

In mid to late March 1913 Edward Thomas took a bicycle ride from Clapham to the Quantock Hills. The poet recorded his journey; In Pursuit of Spring was published in 1914. One of his most important works, it stands as an elegy for a lost world. Thomas photographed much of what he saw. The prints are now published for the very first time.

From the leafy forest floor to the inside of a bee hive, The Inner Life of Animals opens up the animal kingdom like never before. We hear the stories of a grateful humpback whale, of a hedgehog who has nightmares, and of a magpie who commits adultery;

The Sunday Times-bestselling book from the multi-award-winning author of The Outrun - on the ecology of love and heartbreak, the urban environment and the digital age

This book is designed to give students rapid and easy access to key ecological material to assist learning and revision.

Introducing Environment takes the reader on a guided tour of some of the major environmental issues of our time. It is the ideal text for anyone new to environmental science and ecology looking to master the essentials in a quick, straightforward way.

Offers a range of information to help the reader understand environmental politics, from the Flood to present-day holes in the sky, and from the earthworm to Agribiz and the photobiological reactor. The book presents a portrait of our beleaguered Earth and points to sustainable alternatives.

This unique and insightful text offers an exploration of the origins and subsequent development of the concept of just sustainability, with a focus on solutions-oriented policy and planning initiatives that specifically address issues of equity and justice within the context of developing sustainable communities.

This ground breaking study of one of the defining political problems of our era traces the development of ideas about sustainability from the sixteenth century, showing how it became a social and political problem, and addressing questions of how we should think about sustainability today.

A wise, passionate and compelling investigation into how our landscape makes us who we are.

Unhappily land-locked in his early adult life, the authors' fortunes changed when he began visiting Scotland's west coast in the 1930s. He made temporary homes with his family on some of the remotest Hebridean islands so he could study the habits of grey seals and seabirds. This book tells about his life on island.