A timely new edition of Richard Mabey's profound and poetic book, Beechcombings, now updated with a new foreword and afterword by the author
Richard Mabey is the father figure of modern nature writing in
the UK. Since 1972 he has written some 40 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.
Wonderfully subversive, far-reaching and unsentimental
*Observer*
Richard Mabey is a man for all seasons, most regions and every kind
of landscape
*Financial Times*
An elegant and heartfelt essay on mankind's changing relationship
with trees
*Sunday Telegraph*
A leaf-storm of philosophical musings, journeys of mind and body,
reflections and anecdotes that imprint the tree on human
culture
*Sunday Times*
A terrific combination of both natural and intellectual history,
informed by penetrating insight
*Independent*
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