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A new book from the acclaimed nature writer, and author of "Flora Britannica" and "Food For Free", which explores our preoccupation with the weather. Ties in with the BBC Radio 3 programme "Changing Climates". Weaves together science, art and memoirs to show the weather's impact on our culture and national psyche. 'The nation's favourite nature writer' "Sunday Telegraph

The true story—and true glories—of the plants we love to hateFrom dandelions to crabgrass, stinging nettles to poison ivy, weeds are familiar, pervasive, widely despised, and seemingly invincible. How did they come to be the villains of the natural world? And why can the same plant be considered beautiful in some places but be deemed a menace in others? In Weeds, renowned nature writer Richard Mabey embarks on an engaging journey with the verv...

Weeds are botanical thugs, but they have always been essential to our lives. They were the first crops and medicines and they inspired Velcro. They adorn weddings and foliate the most derelict urban sites. With the verve and historical breadth of Michael Pollan, acclaimed nature writer Richard Mabey delivers a provocative defense of the plants we love to hate.

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When the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White (1720-93) wrote The Natural History of Selborne (1789), he created one of the greatest and most influential natural history works of all time, his detailed observations about birds and animals providing the cornerstones of modern ecology. In this award-winning biography, Richard Mabey tells the wonderful story of the clergyman - England's first ecologist - whose inspirational naturalist's handbook h...

A cultural history of plants in the wrong place, by one of Britain's most admired nature writers, author of "Flora Britannica" and "Birds Britannica". It won the National Trust Book Award, and is a perfect gift for nature lovers and armchair gardeners. 'The nation's favourite nature writer.' "Sunday Telegraph

This is an exploration of the plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief.

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 title provides a portable guide for all those who enjoy what the countryside has to offer. More than 100 plants are listed, fully illustrated, a...

Richard Mabey is the father figure of modern nature writing in the UK. Since 1972 he has written some 40 influential books, including the prize-winning Nature Cure, Gilbert White: a Biography, and Flora Britannica. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Vice-President of the Open Spaces Society. He spent the first half of his life amongst the Chiltern beechwoods, and now lives in Norfolk in a house surrounded by ash trees.

Richard Mabey reveals the astonishingly rich world of animal and plant life surviving and often thriving among docklands, railways, factories and canals.

The Cabaret of Plants is a masterful, globe-trotting exploration of the relationship between humans and the kingdom of plants by the renowned naturalist Richard Mabey. A rich, sweeping, and wonderfully readable work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to t...

Home Country is a classic memoir by Britain's most popular nature writer.

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Richard Mabey is the acclaimed author of some thirty books, including Gilbert White, which won the Whitbread Biography Award in 1986, Flora Britannica (1995), winner of a National Book Award, and Nature Cure (2005), which was short-listed for three major literary awards, the Whitbread, Ondaatje, and J.R. Ackerley prizes. He writes for the Guardian, New Statesman and Granta, and contributes frequently to BBC radio. He is a Fellow of the Royal S...

The Cabaret of Plants is a masterful, globe-trotting exploration of the relationship between humans and the kingdom of plants by the renowned naturalist Richard Mabey. A rich, sweeping, and wonderfully readable work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to t...

Early in "Nature Cure" Richard Mabey returns continually to the swift, who in its spectacular migration may not touch down for well over a year. In Ted Hughes's phrase, the reappearance of the swifts tells us that "the globe's still working." When we encounter the author in the opening pages of this powerful memoir, his corner of the globe is decidedly not working. A deep depression has left him alienated from his work and his family, financia...

With more than two hundred editions, Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne is one of the most published books in the English language. In this Whitbread Prize-winning biography, Richard Mabey - whom the Times has called "Britain's foremost nature writer” - looks at the life from which the celebrated work grew.

I nostri sensi sono uno strumento privilegiato di conoscenza e di comunicazione con la natura, da cui nemmeno lo scienziato può prescindere. Ne è pienamente convinto il famoso botanico inglese Richard Mabey, tanto da dedicare a ognuno di essi un saggio di questa sua raccolta. Riuscendo nell'ardua impresa di coniugare la visione romantica della natura con la scrupolosità dell'osservatore scientifico, Mabey ci regala una raffinata serie di medit...

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