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The Ash and The Beech
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 13.34From ash die-back to the Great Storm of 1987 to Dutch elm disease, our much-loved woodlands seem to be under constant threat from a procession of natural challenges. Just when we need trees most, to help combat global warming and to provide places of retreat for us and our wildlife, they seem at greatest peril. But these dangers force us to reconsider... more...
Weeds
Profile 2010; US$ 14.38Weeds 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... more...
Weeds
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99?[A] witty and beguiling meditation on weeds and their wily ways?.You will never look at a weed, or flourish a garden fork, in the same way again.? ?Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder ?In this fascinating, richly detailed book, Richard Mabey gives weeds their full due.? ?Carl Zimmer, author of Evolution Richard Mabey, Great Britain?s... more...
A Brush With Nature
Ebury Publishing 2010; US$ 17.34Described 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 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... more...
The Perfumier and the Stinkhorn
Profile 2011; US$ 15.98In these elegant, short essays, revered nature writer Richard Mabey attempts to marry a Romantic's view of the natural world with that of the meticulous observations of the scientist. By Romanticism he refers to the view that nature isn't a machine to be dissected, but a community of which we, the observers, are inextricably part. And that... more...
Fencing Paradise
Transworld 2011; US$ 12.00In 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 book challenges the reader to look differently at... more...
Beechcombings
Random House 2011; US$ 12.00In 1987, the greatest English storm for three centuries laid flat fifteen million trees across southern England and devastated a nation of tree-lovers. The storm marked a turning point in our perception of trees and a dawning realisation that they have lives of their own, beyond the roles and images we press on them. In Beechcombings Richard... more...
Nature Cure
Random House 2011; US$ 12.00In 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 had been a source of joy and inspiration for him... more...
Wild Cooking
Random House 2012; US$ 12.00Richard Mabey's sparky, offbeat book is about canny and inventive making-do, or 'busking in the kitchen'. Whether creating a cassoulet which uses English ingredients, making bread from chestnuts or slow-cooking a Peking duck in front of an ancient fan heater, he encourages us to be daring and imaginative in our cooking and our approach to food. ... more...
Food For Free (Collins Gem)
HarperCollins Publishers 2012; Not AvailableThe ideal portable companion, the world-renowned Collins Gem series returns with a fresh new look and updated material. more...









