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We regard gardens as our personal dominions, where we can create whatever worlds we desire. But they are also occupied by myriads of other organisms, all with their own lives to lead. The conflict between these two power bases, Richard Mabey suggests, is a microcosm of what is happening in the larger world. In this provocative book, rooted in the daily dramas of his own Norfolk garden, Mabey offers a different scenario, where nature becomes an...

Part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground, this title looks at the relationship between city and country, and how this brings out the power of nature.

This fully updated special edition of the classic complete guide to the edible species that grow around us includes a new foreword from the author and a plate section with identification guides for all major species.

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This fully updated special edition of the classic complete guide to the edible species that grow around us includes a new foreword from the author and a plate section with identification guides for all major species.

In Beechcomings Richard Mabey set out to uncover our relationship with trees, and specifically the beech, their significance in nature and meaning in folklore.

In this prize-winning biography, Richard Mabey brilliantly recreated the life of the pioneering naturalist and wonderfully evoked White's Hampshire landscape.

During the early 1970s Richard Mabey explored the edgelands of cities: crumbling city docks and overgrown bomb-sites, inner city canals and car parks, and discovered there was scarcely a nook in our urban landscape incapable of supporting life.

A new special edition of the seminal, bestselling book, with a new foreword by the author and a new jacket by the artist Michael Kirkman, to celebrate the author's 80th birthday.

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Richard Mabey is among the best writers at work in Britain.

Richard Mabey is the father of modern nature writing in the UK. Since 1972 he has written some forty 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.

Überraschende Einblicke ins Reich der farbenfrohen Formwandler, Lebenskünstler und Trickbetrüger - bunt, unterhaltsam und mit einem besonderen Auge für Kuriositäten berichtet Meistererzähler Richard Mabey von Pflanzen, die so viel mehr sind als »das Mobiliar unseres Planeten«. Von eiszeitlichen Höhlenmalereien über Carl von Linnés Beschreibungen zu den Hymnen der romantischen Dichter: Schon immer haben Menschen sich mit Pflanzen beschäftigt, i...

Richard Mabey is one of our most gifted and evocative writers on nature and the environment. This single-volume collection of the best of his writings shows the range and quality of his thinking over a quarter of a century. It includes nature diaries, writings on travel and environmental art and full-blown investigations of forestry, farming and development scandals. Here, too, are personal meditations, on the nature of landscape, the mytholog...

Die sanfte Hügellandschaft der Chiltern Hills mit ihrem milden Klima war Richard Mabey ein ganzes Leben lang Heimat und Inspiration. Doch eine schwere Depression führt ihn plötzlich in die Isolation. Selbst die vertraute und geliebte Natur spendet ihm keinen Trost, scheint nur noch eine leere Kulisse seines Elends zu sein. Bald muss er Haus und Grundstück verkaufen und ein Zimmer in einem alten Hof in Norfolk beziehen. Die von Dauerregen, Sümp...

Flagello biblico, responsabili di avvelenamenti di massa o simbolo di rinascita postbellica: fin dagli albori l'umanità ha rinunciato a dare una definizione scientifica di "erbaccia", cambiando etichetta a seconda delle mode e della cultura dell'epoca. Prendendo avvio proprio da questo dato di fatto, l'autorevole botanico inglese Richard Mabey scrive la prima storia culturale di queste creature che vivono ai margini della società vegetale, cos...

Cos'hanno in comune i possenti alberi millenari con i delicati fiori di campo, le conturbanti orchidee con il mais o il cotone che utilizziamo ogni giorno? Giganti dei boschi come il tasso e la quercia sono così densi di significati culturali e religiosi da racchiudere nei loro anelli "una genealogia spirituale" che ha più a che fare con la decifrazione di un simbolo che non con un quesito strettamente botanico. Altri protagonisti del mondo ve...

From the acclaimed nature writer whose books include "Flora Britannica" and "Nature Cure", this is a biography of Flora Thompson, who wrote the "Lark Rise To Candleford" books, which inspired the TV series. Retraces her life from a post office clerk who left school at 14 to sophisticated professional writer.