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A Brush with Nature : 25 Years of Personal Reflections on Nature by Richard Mabey
$42.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
This definitive collection brings together his favourite pieces and presents a fascinating and inspiring view of the changing natural landscape in which we live. With marvellously observed detail, Mabey recalls following a barn owl he'd encountered while walking near his home in Norfolk, and talks of st ...Show more
A Good Parcel of English Soil: The Metropolitan Line (Penguin Underground Lines) by Richard Mabey
$12.99 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | Series: Penguin Underground Lines
Richard Mabey, one of Britain's leading nature writers, looks in A Good Parcel of English Soil at the relationship between city and country, and how this brings out the power of nature - part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground, as Tfl celebrates 150 years of t ...Show more
Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees by Richard Mabey
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Richard Mabey's new book is about beech trees - but also, of course, about numerous other issues, including global warming and the importance of trees in the landscape. Trees are the largest and most significant organisms on our planet; and this is Mabey's most poetic, most enjoyable, most profound and ...Show more
Beechcombings : The narratives of trees by Richard Mabey
$69.99 NZD
Category: Gardening and Self Sufficiency
Beech trees reached Britain about 8,000 years ago, and they were workhorses, not ornaments - fuel for Rome's glassworks; firewood for London; oars for the ships of Venice; raw material for furniture, cut and turned by 'bodgers' who lived like nomads among the trees in huts made of beechwood shavings. Ma ...Show more
Dreams of the Good Life: The Life of Flora Thompson and the Creation of Lark Rise to Candleford by Richard Mabey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
While the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, Flora Thompson's much-loved portrait of life in the English countryside, has inspired a hit television series, relatively little is known about the author herself. In this highly original book, bestselling biographer and nature writer Richard Mabey sympathetica ...Show more
Dreams of the Good Life: The Life of Flora Thompson and the Creation of Lark Rise to Candleford by Richard Mabey
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
While the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, Flora Thompson's much-loved portrait of life in the English countryside, has inspired a hit television series, relatively little is known about the author herself. In this highly original book, bestselling biographer and nature writer Richard Mabey sympathetica ...Show more
Fencing Paradise : The uses and abuses of plants by Richard Mabey (illus Sue Hill)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Gardening
In this remarkable journal of visits to Eden, Mabey transports his reader from Cornwall to the Mediterranean to the Tropics, from Old World to New, from present to personal memory, to new perspectives on our collective artistic and emotional past. Sensuous and evocative, exquisitely written, his new boo ...Show more
Food for Free by Richard Mabey
$16.00 NZD
Category: Gardening and Self Sufficiency
Fans of Food for Free will be delighted at this new format -- ideal for carrying in a rucksack. Over 100 edible plants are featured together with recipes and other interesting culinary information. With details on how to pick, when to pick and regulations on picking. This new format of a best-selling ti ...Show more
Nature Cure by Richard Mabey
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression. For two years, he did little more than lie in bed with his face to a wall. He could neither work nor play. His money ran out. Worst of all, the natural world - which since childhood ha ...Show more
Nature Cure by Richard Mabey
$54.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Richard Mabey's descent into clinical depression was so annihilating that he could neither work nor play, nor sustain relationships with family or friends. He was drinking too much, taking too many pills - and, worst of all, had lost all pleasure in the outside world. This remarkable book charts his gra ...Show more
Nature Cure by Richard Mabey
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression. For two years, he did little more than lie in bed with his face to a wall. He could neither work nor play. His money ran out. Worst of all, the natural world - which since childhood ha ...Show more
The Cabaret of Plants - Botany and the Imagination by Richard Mabey
$49.99 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: near fine
In Richard Mabey's characteristically lyrical and informative tone, The Cabaret of Plants explores plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken that clichéd but real human emotion of wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief. Picked from every walk of life, ...Show more