
A Brush With Nature: 25 Years Of Personal Reflections On The Natural World
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 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...
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: BBC Books (April 12, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781846079139
ISBN-13: 978-1846079139
ASIN: 1846079136
Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 0.9 x 8.9 inches
Amazon Rank: 5469366
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“Richard Mabey's A Brush with Nature lives up to every expectation one might have: thoughtful, timely, perceptive inquiries into the natural world. Just what one would wish to share with a friend at Christmas.What did not live up to expectation was t...”
d encountered while walking near his home in Norfolk, and talks of studying lichens through the lens of a Victorian microscope. Alongside tales of ants and hornets, swifts and pink-footed geese, we read about the hustle and bustle of his village in the heat of the summer, and his musings on the significance of Constable's "The Cornfield". Mabey's fascination lies in the way that we live and work within the nature that surrounds us. 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.
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