Salar the Salmon’s migration through the rivers of Devon – surviving porpoises, seals, nets, fishermen, otters, poachers and weirs – is one of nature’s great journeys. Intense, brilliantly imagined, the salmon’s perilous return leaves us with a vivid, unsentimental picture of how both people and wildlife rely on a river and its estuary.
Our new edition includes the black and white illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe that first appeared in 1936.
HENRY WILLIAMSON
Introduced by Michael Morpurgo Cover illustration by Mark Hearld
216 x 156mm sewn paperback with flaps 216 pages with 48 B/W engravings by C.F. Tunnicliffe ISBN 978 0 9562545 4 2 Buy any three title for £25 or any six for £50 All prices include postage within the UK £10.00 Salar the Salmon ... £10.00
Buy any three title for £25 or any six for £50 All prices include postage within the UK
During the early 1970s Richard Mabey explored crumbling city docks and overgrown bomb-sites, navigated inner city canals and car parks, and discovered there was scarcely a nook in our urban landscape incapable of supporting life. The Unofficial Countryside is a timely reminder of how nature flourishes against the odds, surviving in the most obscure and surprising places.
RICHARD MABEY
Introduced by Iain Sinclair Cover illustration by Mary Newcomb
216 x 156mm sewn paperback with flaps 184 pages with illustrations from Mary Newcomb's sketchbook ISBN 978 0 9562545 5 9 Buy any three title for £25 or any six for £50 All prices include postage within the UK £10.00 The Unofficial Countryside ... £10.00
Clare Leighton was one of the finest engravers of the twentieth century. In the 1930s, when she settled in the countryside with her long-term partner, the political journalist Henry Noel Brailsford, she turned her creativity to the land. Gardening became her passion. Her obsession. This is the story of the garden she carved from meadowland deep in the Chiltern Hills.
CLARE LEIGTHON
Introduced by Carol Klein Preface by David Leighton Cover illustration by Clare Leighton
216 x 156mm sewn paperback with flaps 176 pages with 84 wood engravings by Clare Leighton ISBN 978 0 9562545 3 5 Buy any three title for £25 or any six for £50 All prices include postage within the UK £10.00 Four Hedges ... £10.00
Adrian Bell's travels through East Anglia and lowland Britain capture the character of the countryside before modern agriculture altered the landscape and changed forever the way we eat and live.
This new edition restores the original colour lithographs and black and white line drawings by John Nash that appeared in the first edition.
ADRIAN BELL
Introduced by Ronald Blythe Preface by Martin Bell
216 x 156mm sewn paperback with flaps 160 pages with John Nash line drawings + 8 pages of colour lithographs ISBN 978 0 9562545 2 8
Hailed a masterpiece when it was first published, the story of Gavin Maxwell’s life with otters on the remote west coast of Scotland remains one of the most lyrical, moving descriptions of a man’s relationship with the natural world.
GAVIN MAXWELL
Introduced by John Lister-Kaye Foreword by Alex Salmond MP Cover illustration by Winifred Nicholson
216 x 156mm sewn paperback with flaps 224 pages, line drawings throughout, 8 pages of photographs ISBN 978 0 9562545 0 4
Acutely sensitive to rhythms of the countryside, Edward Thomas's lyrical, passionate, and sometimes political writing merges natural history with folk culture, and gives us a free-form record of the feelings and observations of one of the great poets of the English language.
This centenary edition includes a preface by Edward Thomas's wife, Helen, and the stunning engravings of Eric Fitch Daglish.
EDWARD THOMAS
Introduced by Robert Macfarlane Cover illustration by David Inshaw
216 x 156mm sewn paperback with flaps 240 pages with engravings by Eric Daglish throughout ISBN 978 0 9562545 1 1
