'Britain's greatest living nature writer' (The Times) describes how he conquered clinical depression through his re-awakened love of nature.
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 brilliant, candid and heartfelt memoir...The account of
how he broke free of depression, reshaped his life and reconnected
with the wild becomes nothing short of a manifesto for
living...Mabey's particular vision, informed by a lifetime's
reading and observation, is ultimately optimistic. It is also what
makes his voice so appealing amid all the froth and flam of the
eco-debate -- Philip Marsden * Sunday Times *
A book of which only he could have written a single
page...marvellously observed, deeply felt from sentence to
sentence. The writing is exquisite -- David Sexton, * Evening
Standard *
Subtle, devotional, poetic * Observer *
Rich, invigorating and deeply restorative * Irish Times
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Nature Cure moves between the nervous breakdown of an individual
and the madness of the modern world with a prescience akin to that
of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land -- Jonathan Bate * Guardian *
Mabey is a radical, inheritor of an old English tradition...The
core of the book is his exploration of his new landscape. It
feels a privilege to share it, watching him unpick the layers of
watery Norfolk, with dazzling skill and the warmest of hearts, as
his troubled mind heals -- Michael McCarthy * Independent *
Written in the radiant, tingle-making prose that has earned
Mabey literary prizes and a multitude of fans... both a wake-up
call and an example of how the love of nature can electrify and
heal the imagination. -- Val Hennessy * Daily Mail *
An inspiring book -- Nicholas Bagnall * Sunday Telegraph
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Britain's greatest living nature writer * The Times *
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