Selected Writings 1974-1999
Richard Mabey is one of our most gifted and evocative writers on nature and the environment. This single-volume collection of the best of his writings shows the range and quality of his thinking over a quarter of a century. It includes nature diaries, writings on travel and environmental art and full-blown investigations of forestry, farming and development scandals. Here, too, are personal meditations, on the nature of landscape, the mythology of woodlands and the appeal of wilderness.But it is in its vivid, vital detail that Richard Mabey's writing shines. We meet flamingos in the Camargue and flamenco singers in Estremaduran cork-oak fores…
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- ISBN: 978-1-85619-779-3
- EAN: 9781856197793
- Produktnummer: 23162756
- Verlag: Vintage Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 325 S.
- Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.2 cm x D3.2 cm 580 g
- Gewicht: 580
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Richard Mabey became a household name with the publication of his first book, Food for Free, in 1972. His position as one of our foremost writers in the subject of nature has since been confirmed by the outstanding success of the bestselling Flora Britannica.His other books include The Unofficial Countryside, The Common Ground, The Flowering of Britain and his intensely personal study of the nightingale, Whistling in the Dark. His biography of Gilbert White won the Whitbread Biography Award for 1986.He is also a broadcaster and recently wrote and narrated the popular BBC television series Postcards from the Country.
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