A stunning evocation of our natural world, from 'Britain's greatest living nature writer' (The Times).
Richard Mabey is the father of modern nature writing in the UK.
Since 1972 he has written some forty influential books, including
the prize-winning Nature Cure, Gilbert White- a Biography, and
Flora Britannica. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
and Vice-President of the Open Spaces Society.
He spent the first half of his life amongst the Chiltern
beechwoods, and now lives in Norfolk in a house surrounded by ash
trees.
A golden evocation of flora and fauna, places, people and
perspectives.
*The Lady*
Getting hold of Brush With Nature in early March was like being
given an unseasonable spell of warm weather in which everything in
the natural world suddenly bursts into life ... Each [essay] feels
like an outing, a trip with a supremely knowledgeable yet unpompous
guide to somewhere new and fascinating.
*The Independent*
Mabey's head is filled with the sights and sounds of exploration
but also with the background hum of politics, science, poetry and
prose, social history and the experiences of other amateur and
professional ramblers. In these essays, Mabey is generous and
inclusive, the mark of a rounded writer and man.
*The Times*
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