Silbury Hill in Wiltshire has perplexed people for generations: was it part of a ritual landscape, an island, a way of remembering the dead, a place of celebration? In this acclaimed memoir Adam Thorpe returns to the landscape of his youth to explore its many meanings for him, and for us.
On the Marshes is Carol Donaldson's extraordinary evocation of the north Kentish marshes, told through a long walk taken across this liminal landscape, in search of the people and wildlife that make this unusual landscape their home.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020 __________________________ 'A moving story of love, tradition and landscape.' Evening Standard, 'Books of the Year' 'A moving, multilayered memoir...
Five years after writing her first nature memoir, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Kate Bradbury reveals how her new garden and her climate-change anxiety push her to look for positive ways to keep going in a changing world..
Initially published in 1969, and one of Fuller's most popular works, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth is a brilliant synthesis of his world view. In this very accessible volume, Fuller investigates the great challenges facing humanity, and the principles for avoiding extinction and "exercising our option to make it."
The paperback edition of Horatio Clare's search for the western world's rarest bird, the Slender-billed Curlew, through a fractured Europe and the Middle East.
The Commission was created by the UN in 1983 to formulate new proposals to deal with the important issues of environmental development facing the world. The Commission's findings are presented in this book.
From baker, beekeeper and birdwatcher to falconer, farrier and forager, join poet Angus and printmaker Lilly as they explore the British Isles, uncovering and celebrating our crafts and traditions.
The bestselling author of the landmark work Last Child in the Woods now shows how cultivating the powerful, mysterious, and fragile bond between humans and other animals can improve our mental, physical, and spiritual health, protect our planet, and serve as an antidote to the loneliness of our species.
Britain has some of the most beautiful woodland in the world, with some of the most beautiful inhabitants. All year round, the trees in forests, copses and wastelands offer our feathered friends food, shelter and a place to congregate and show-off. This book captures Britain's woodland life with his charming and distinctive illustrations.
Net zero emissions is only the beginning. In a balanced assessment of potential climate interventions, Smith explains the need for carbon dioxide removal and even solar radiation management to preserve our societies and ecosystems. Based on the author's groundbreaking course at Yale, this book is academically rigorous, passionate and accessible.
A short book proposing a way of thinking about - and taking action against - our dire ecological predicament. The intention is that it should function as a short, sharp and timely response to our present situation, intended for a general, non-specialist audience, something like Paulo Giordano's How Contagion Works, or Paul Krugman's Fuzzy Math.