The Unofficial Countryside (Nature Classics Library) - Softcover

Richard Mabey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956254551 ISBN 13: 9780956254559

Publisher: Little Toller Books, 2010

Synopsis

During the early 1970s Richard Mabey set about mapping his unofficial countryside. He walked crumbling city docks and overgrown bomb sites, navigating inner city canals and car parks, exploring sewage works, gravel pits, rubbish tips. What he discovered runs deeper than a natural history of our suburbs and cities. The Unofficial Countryside prescribes another way of seeing, another way of experiencing nature in our daily lives. Wild flowers glimpsed from a commuter train. A kestrel hawking above a public park. Enchanter's nightshade growing through pavement cracks. Fox cubs playing on a motorway's scrubby fringe. There is a scarcely a nook in our urban landscape incapable of supporting life. It is an inspiration to find this abundance, to discover how plants, birds, mammals and insects flourish against the odds in the most obscure and surprising places.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Little Toller Books republishes nature writing classics. Our new edition of Richard Mabey's groundbreaking book is illustrated - for the first time - with artwork by Mary Newcomb and includes a new introduction by Iain Sinclair.

About the Author:

Richard Mabey is the author of some thirty books, including Food for Free (1972), Gilbert White, which won the Whitbread Biography Award in 1986, Flora Britannica (1996), Beechcombings: the narratives of Trees (2007), and his memoir Nature Cure (2005

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Toller Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0956254551
• ISBN 13: 9780956254559
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184
• Illustrator: Mary Newcomb