The Unofficial Countryside
Author | : Richard Mabey |
Publisher | : Richard Mabey Library |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-11-22 |
Genre | : Natural history |
ISBN | : 9781908213938 |
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Author | : Richard Mabey |
Publisher | : Richard Mabey Library |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-11-22 |
Genre | : Natural history |
ISBN | : 9781908213938 |
Author | : Richard Mabey |
Publisher | : Little Toller Books |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780956254559 |
During the early 1970s Richard Mabey explored crumbling city docks and overgrown bomb-sites, navigated inner city canals and car parks, and discovered there was scarcely a nook in our urban landscape incapable of supporting life. The Unofficial Countryside is a timely reminder of how nature flourishes against the odds, surviving in the most obscure and surprising places. First published 1973 by William Collins Sons & Co.
Author | : Richard Mabey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Natural history |
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Author | : Richard Mabey |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780813926216 |
Richard Mabey is the author of numerous books on Britain's ecology, including the best-selling Flora Britannica and the Whitbread Prize-winning Gilbert White (Virginia).
Author | : Eve Zibart |
Publisher | : The Unofficial Guides |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2014-03-17 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1628090170 |
Compiled and written by a team of experienced researchers whose work has been cited by such diverse sources as USA Today and Operations Research Forum, The Unofficial Guide to Washington, D.C. digs deeper and offers more than any other guide. The Unofficial Guide to Washington, D.C. is the insider's guide to Washington at its best with more than 75 restaurants reviewed and hotels reviewed and ranked for value and quality-plus secrets for getting the lowest rates. With advice that is direct, prescriptive, and detailed, it takes the guesswork out of travel by unambiguously rating and ranking everything from hotels, restaurants, and attractions to rental car companies. With an Unofficial Guide, you know what’s available in every category, from the best to the worst and step-by-step detailed plans allow the reader to make the most of their time in Washington, D.C.
Author | : Hugh Clout |
Publisher | : University of Exeter Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780859894913 |
After the Ruins uses both official and unofficial records to explore a relatively ignored aspect of recent rural history: how the fields, farms, villages and market towns of Northern France were restored during the 1920s in the aftermath of the Great War. The book contains illustrations and many detailed maps and makes use of both official reports and unofficial critical commentaries.
Author | : Colin Elford |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2010-03-04 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0141928387 |
Colin Elford's A Year in the Woods is an enthralling journey into the heart of the English countryside - with a preamble by Craig Taylor. Colin Elford spends his days alone - alone but for the deer, the squirrels, the rabbits, the birds, and the many other creatures inhabiting the woods. From the crisp cold of January, through the promise of spring and the heat of summer, and then into damp autumn and the chill winds of winter, we accompany the forest-ranger as he goes about his work - stalking in the early morning darkness, putting an injured fallow buck out of its misery, watching stoats kill a hare, observing owls, and simply being a part of the outdoors. Colin Elford immerses himself in the richly diverse and unique landscapes of Britain, existing in rhythm with natural environments. For fans of Robert Macfarlane's Landmarks, Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk orJames Rebanks' A Shepherd's Life, Colin's rare and uplifiting journey will unveil the true nature and beauty of Britain's countryside. 'This is nature for real . . . Elford describes woodland wonders in short paragraphs of luminous intensity' Daily Mail 'A poetic insight in the world of hidden Nature' Countryman 'Stalking sharpens the senses and there is an almost hallucinatory clarity to Elford's writing' Observer 'Refreshingly unsentimental. Contains some wonderful descriptions and sentences which are so profound they demand a second reading' Sunday Express Colin Elford is a forest ranger on the Dorset/Wiltshire border. Craig Taylor is the author of Return to Akenfield and One Million Tiny Plays About Britain and the editor of the magazine Five Dials.
Author | : Richard Mabey |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2010-10-14 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 184668076X |
Weeds survive, entombed in the soil, for centuries. They are as persistent and pervasive as myths. They ride out ice ages, agricultural revolutions, global wars. They mark the tracks of human movements across continents as indelibly as languages. Yet to humans they are the scourge of our gardens, saboteurs of our best-laid plans. They rob crops of nourishment, ruin the exquisite visions of garden designers, and make unpleasant and impenetrable hiding places for urban ne'er-do-wells. Weeds can be destructive and troubling, but they can also be beautiful, and they are the prototypes of most of the plants that keep us alive. Humans have grappled with their paradox for thousands of years, and with characteristic verve and lyricism, Richard Mabey uncovers some of the deeper cultural reasons behind the attitudes we have to such a huge section of the plant world.
Author | : Gareth E. Rees |
Publisher | : Elliott & Thompson |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-07 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781783965960 |
There is a Britain that exists outside of the official histories and guidebooks - places that lie on the margins, left behind. This is a land of industrial estates and electricity pylons, of motorways and ring roads, of hospitals and housing estates, of roundabouts and flyovers. Places where modern life speeds past but where people and stories nevertheless collect: ghost sightings, first kisses, experiments with drugs, refuges for the homeless, hangouts for the outcasts. Struck by the power of such stories and experiences, Gareth E. Rees set out to explore these mundane and neglected spaces, which can be as powerfully influential in our lives, and imaginations, as any picture postcard tourist destination. This is Unofficial Britain, a personal journey along the edges of a landscape brimming with mystery, folklore and myth.
Author | : Robert Gibbings |
Publisher | : Little Toller Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-06-08 |
Genre | : Boats and boating |
ISBN | : 9781908213068 |
A charming account of an artist-naturalist adrift in a home-made punt on the eve of the Second World War.