Beechcombings: The narratives of trees - Hardcover

Mabey, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1856197336 ISBN 13: 9781856197335

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2007

Synopsis

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 challenging book to date.

About this title

Review:

"Radiant, tingle-making prose has earned Mabey literary prizes and a multitude of fans" (Daily Mail)

"Britain's greatest living nature writer" (The Times)

"Richard Mabey is a man for all seasons, most regions and every kind of landscape" (Andrew Motion Financial Times)

About the Author:

Richard Mabey is 'Britain's greatest living nature writer' The Times

'Richard Mabey is a man for all seasons, most regions and every kind of landscape' Andrew Motion, Financial Times

Among his acclaimed publications are Food for Free (his first book and never out of print), Gilbert White (Whitbread Biography of the Year) and the ground-breaking bestseller Flora Britannica, which won the British Book Awards' Illustrated Book of the Year and the Botanical Society of the British Isles' President's Award and was runner-up for the BP Natural World Book Prize. He collaborated on Birds Britannica (which was his idea) and his most recent book, Nature Cure, described as 'A brilliant, candid and heartfelt memoir', had such wide appeal that it was shortlisted for no fewer than four prestigious prizes: the Whitbread Biography, the J.R. Ackerley for autobiography, Mind (for its investigation into depression) and the Ondaatje for the evocation of the spirit of place.

Richard Mabey was born and brought up among the beech woods of the Chilterns, and now lives in Norfolk.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1856197336
• ISBN 13: 9781856197335
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304