A Brush With Nature: Reflections on the Natural World
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
A Brush With Nature: Reflections on the Natural World
By (Author) Richard Mabey
Ebury Publishing
BBC Books
15th July 2014
10th July 2014
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
333.72
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 126mm, Height 198mm, Spine 19mm
218g
Description
A stunning evocation of our natural world, from 'Britain's greatest living nature writer' (The Times). Described as 'Britain's greatest living nature writer', Richard Mabey has revealed his passion for the natural world in eloquent stories for BBC Wildlife Magazine. This volume features his favourite pieces and presents a fascinating and inspiring view of the changing natural landscape in which we live. Peppered throughout with references to the heritage of nature writing, and great writers from Richard Jefferies and John Clare to Roger Deakin and Robert MacFarlane, A Brush With Nature is part memoir, part nature journal, part social history, giving us a unique insight into a nature lover's reflections over a quarter of a century.
Reviews
A golden evocation of flora and fauna, places, people and perspectives. -- Susan Hill * 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. -- Michael McCarthy * 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 *
Author Bio
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.
