
A Buzz In The Meadow
In 2003 Dave Goulson bought a derelict farm in the heart of rural France, together with 33 acres of surrounding meadow. Over the course of a decade...
View full detailsIn 2003 Dave Goulson bought a derelict farm in the heart of rural France, together with 33 acres of surrounding meadow. Over the course of a decade...
View full detailsFrom the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the rolling hills of medieval England to the vast sheep farms of modern-day Australia, sheep have been ce...
View full detailsDave Goulson has always been obsessed with wildlife, from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets and dabbling in experimental taxidermy to his grou...
View full detailsAsk the Fellows Who Cut the Hay is a vivid portrait of the rural past of Blaxhall, a remote Suffolk village, in the time before mechanization chang...
View full detailsAt the start of the nineteenth century, John James Audubon embarked upon an epic ornithological quest across America with nothing but his artist's ...
View full detailsA hunt for the world's most elusive bees leads Dave Goulson from Poland to Patagonia as well as closer to home, amongst the secret places hidden ri...
View full detailsEight inspiring chapters cover key elements for the 'biophilic home', including materials, views, colour and natural light. Each section explores t...
View full detailsFrom the revered Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer, comes his national bestseller on one of the world's oldest and most popular activiti...
View full detailsDrawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings-asters and goldenrod, strawberries an...
View full detailsWhen eleven climbers died on K2 in 2008, two Sherpas survived. Their astonishing tale became the stuff of mountaineering legend. This white-knuckle...
View full detailsFor most of human history, people believed that everything in the world was created at once. But scientists started to challenge that idea and in 1...
View full detailsillustrated by Jonathan Woodward Every creature in the ocean – from the tiny snail to the enormous blue whale – depends on water for survival. This...
View full detailsillustrated by Jonathan Woodward Every creature in the forest – from the tiny beetle to the giant bear – depends on trees for survival. This wonder...
View full detailsFrom the Common Swift, which can stay in the air continuously without landing for up to ten months at a time, to the tiny Goldcrest, Europe’s small...
View full detailsOne night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk home on their way to roos...
View full detailsDarkness has shaped the lives of humans for millennia, and in Dark Skies, Tiffany Francis travels around Britain and Europe to learn more about noc...
View full details'I lived alone in this cottage for five years, summer and winter, with no transport, no phone. This is the story of those five years, where I lived...
View full detailsHow many of us sometimes feel that we are scratching at the walls of this life, seeking to find our way into a wider space beyond? That our mild, p...
View full detailsFishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the rollicking humor of Ru...
View full detailsFor the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters ...
View full detailsFungipedia presents a delightful A–Z treasury of mushroom lore. With more than 180 entries—on topics as varied as Alice in Wonderland, chestnut bli...
View full detailsThe splendid poems in this collection both represent and glorify the cultivating instinct, and each of them "succeeds in annihilating all that's ma...
View full detailsFor thirteen years Dian Fossey lived and worked with Uncle Bert, Flossie, Beethoven, Pantsy and Digit in the remote rain forests of the volcanic Vi...
View full detailsOnce upon a time, when the earth was still young, before the fish in the sea and all the living things on land began to be destroyed, a man named W...
View full detailsHumankind's fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival - differentiating the edible from the toxic, the ferocious from the t...
View full detailsAll across the world, irreplaceable habitats are under threat. Unique ecosystems of plants and animals are being destroyed by human intervention. F...
View full detailsThe Yukon River is almost 2,000 miles long, flowing through Canada and Alaska to the Bering Sea. Setting out to explore one of the most ruggedly be...
View full detailsLearn how to care for your own houseplant giants, from the glorious Fiddle Leaf Fig and impressive Banana Plant to the ever-popular Monstera - this...
View full detailsLittle David grew up in Leicester on the campus of a university, where his father was a professor. As a child, he spent hours in the science librar...
View full detailsWhen Jane was little, her father gave her a toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. This inspired her lifelong love of animals, and she went to study them in...
View full detailsToday many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature remains deeply ingrained in our language, c...
View full detailsThe Hebrides hold a remarkable place in the imaginations of Scotland and England. On the outer edge of the British Isles and facing the Atlantic Oc...
View full detailsJourney to the highest peaks and plateaus of planet Earth...but make sure to bring your climbing gear! Take a closer look at the mountains of the w...
View full detailsThe ocean comprises the largest object on our planet. Retelling human history from an oceanic rather than terrestrial point of view unsettles our r...
View full detailsTree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this living object's entanglement with humanity, from antiquity to the present. Trees tower over us...
View full detailsA unique anthology of poems--from around the world and through the ages--that celebrate trees. For thousands of years humans have variously worship...
View full detailsThroughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The co...
View full detailsOne of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to expl...
View full detailsillustrated by Ben Newman Join your helpful guide, Professor Astro Cat, as he takes a dive from the seashore all the way to the ocean floor. From w...
View full detailsillustrated by Ben Newman Welcome back, stargazers! Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered what a star looks like up close? Ever won...
View full detailsWe're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening an...
View full detailsIn 1937, Adam Nicolson's father answered a newspaper ad for a small cluster of three islands-The Shiants (Gaelic meaning "holy" or "enchanted")-whi...
View full detailsPonds: small bodies of water, both naturally formed and artificial, home to wondrous, multitudinous life-forms. Ponds define our childhood: frogspa...
View full detailsA gathering of the best maritime fiction from the last two hundred years: tales of shipwrecks and storms at sea, of creatures from the deep, of voy...
View full detailsIn a centuries-old tradition, farmers in north-western Iceland scour remote coastal plains for the down of nesting eider ducks. High inside a cast ...
View full detailsAnnie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether o...
View full detailsThe Art of Angling offers a bountiful catch of poems from around the world and through the ages on every aspect of the beloved sport. Fishing has i...
View full detailsFredrik Sjöberg - collector, romantic, explorer - spends his life tracing the smallest details of the natural world. In these two beautifully wroug...
View full details