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(0)Richard Mabey
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
While the 'Lark Rise to Candleford' trilogy, Flora Thompson's much-loved portrait of life in the English countryside, has inspired a hit television series, relatively little is known about the author herself. In this book, bestselling biographer and nature writer Richard Mabey sympathetically retraces her life and her transformation from a post-office clerk who left school at 14 to a sophisticated professional writer.
Author
Publisher
Profile
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
From the scourge of poison ivy to the milder nuisance of the stinging nettle, Mabey considers the 'botanical thugs' that destroy whole ecosystems, as well as those that thrive miraculously, greening over war zones and refuse tips, repairing through nature the dereliction we create.
12) Birds Britannica
Author
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Neither an identification guide nor a behavioural study, this book covers cultural links; social history; birds as food; ecology; the lore and language of birds; myths, art, literature and music; anecdotes, birdsong and rare facts; modern developments; migration, the seasons and our sense of place.