LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022 'A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things ... Nicolson is unique as a writer ... I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL Few places are as familiar as the shore - and few as full of mystery and surprise.
See the British year afresh as we follow twelve months via the traditional Japanese calendar of seventy-two seasons: revealing the beauty of small and subtle changes with joy and verve.
This book is the first study of the science, the politics and the polemics surrounding response to the 1972 book "The Limits to Growth," in particular the reactions of economists that marginalized its methods and conclusions for more than 30 years.
`Glorious... Political, passionate, perceptive' Robert MacfarlaneOur landscape has been transformed by a vast network of lines, from hedges and walls to railways and power cables. As our lives and our land were fenced in and threaded together, wildlife habitats were cut into ever smaller - and increasingly unviable - fragments.
A beautiful, collectable gift edition of the masterpiece of Scottish nature writing. Introduced by Robert Macfarlane and with an afterword by Jeanette Winterson
The first London walking guide to reveal the amazing variety of the capital's trees, on a dozen walks around all parts of Greater London, of varying distances from a morning's stroll to a whole day, along streets and through parks and squares, by the author of the perennially popular London's Street Trees.
A new, expanded and fully revised edition of the unique guide to London's 300-odd species of street tree, fully re-designed, with more pages, more trees and more of its popular street-tree walks, re-published in a larger format.
Discover 50 remarkable trees around the world in this stunning atlas, from Australia's towering mountain ash, to New England's flaming maples, and Namibia's quirky quiver tree. Packed with lavish photography and illustrations, keys to identify each tree, tips on visiting the trees in the wild, and expert insights on what makes each tree so special.
A collection of excerpts from unpublished writings and speeches by the New York Times bestselling author of the Sea trilogy and the seminal Silent Spring
Peopled by extraordinary characters, Love, Madness, Fishing is an unsentimental biography of growing up on the Kent/Sussex border in the 60s and 70s, told through the author's love for fishing.