W.G. Hoskins was one of the most original and influential historians of the 20th century. He realized that landscapes are the richest record we have of the past, and with his masterpiece, The Making of the English Landscape, he changed forever how we experience the places we live and work.

Comprehensive overview of an important new field in human geography and interdisciplinary studies of nature-society relations

Offers an account of 18-month journey through the world of a people who have no intention of vanishing into the past. This book retraces the history of the ever-expanding white frontier, from the first eighteenth-century explorer to the wildest corporate energy dreams.

First published by Influx Press in 2013, Marshland is a deep map of the east London marshes where nothing it as it seems, blending local history, folklore, and weird fiction in a genre-straddling classic of contemporary place writing

What really goes on in the long grass? This book gives an intimate account of an English meadow's life from January to December, together with its biography.

Combines examples from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe with theoretical and conceptual frameworks for anticipating, preparing for, and responding to disasters. This title is suitable for those interested in improving risk reduction and adaptation strategies to extreme events.

Adrian Bell's travels through East Anglia and lowland Britain capture the character of the countryside before modern agriculture altered the landscape and changed forever the way we eat and live.

Issues of movement - of people, things, information and ideas - are central to people's lives and to most organisations.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY OLIVIA LAINGIn 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren coast of Dungeness.

Bringing together the testimony of over 80 visionaries--from religious leaders to scientists to elected officials--this book encourages a newly discovered, or rediscovered, commitment to consensus about our ethical obligation to the future and why it's wrong to wreck the world.

A health check on our corrupt and broken political system by one of our finest historians

Offers a startling new vision of motherhood: wild, intimate, diverse; as contested and extraordinary as the world in which we live and the animals with which we share it.

Guardian columnist & Springwatch expert Stephen Moss combines detective work, natural history, folklore and first hand observations to explore how birds got their names and our long and eventful relationship with the natural world.

Through fascinating encounters with birds, and the rich cast of characters who came up with their names, Moss takes readers on a remarkable journey through time. From when humans and birds first shared the Earth to their fraught present-day coexistence, he shows how these names reveal as much about people and their relationship with the natural world as about the creatures they describe.

In his first memoir, beloved comedian and national treasure Bill Bailey shares stories of his life - and the animals he's met along the way.

The heartwarming story of the ups and downs of life on a farm, from much-loved shepherdess Emma Gray