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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Birds
from The Natural History of Selborne
Gilbert White
LETTER 21, TO THE HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON
from Findings
Kathleen Jamie
CREX-CREX
from The Peregrine
J. A. Baker
BEGINNINGS
Craw Sunday
Amanda Thomson
Mavericks and Underdogs
from A Kestrel for a Knave
Barry Hines
from Wilding
Isabella Tree
LIVING WITH THE YELLOW PERIL
from Corvus
Esther Woolfson
MADAME CHICKEBOUMSKAYA
from Life on Limestone
Anna Adams
THE PAPER CITY
from Mehalah
Sabine Baring-Gould
THE RAY
Fields and Farming
from A Shepherd’s Life
W. H. Hudson
SHEPHERD ISAAC BAWCOMBE
from Akenfield
Ronald Blythe
JOHN GROUT - AGED EIGHTY-EIGHT - FARMER
from In the Country
Kenneth Allsop
from The Shepherd’s Life
James Rebanks
from The Grassling
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
ELK-SEDGE
from Four Fields
Tim Dee
HOME FIELD
Four Seasons
from The South Country
Edward Thomas
HAMPSHIRE
from Cider With Rosie
Laurie Lee
from The Green Fool
Patrick Kavanagh
from A Country Dweller’s Years
Jessie Kesson
OCTOBER
from What the Curlew Said
John Moriarty
Moors, Heaths and Mountains
from The Living Mountain
Nan Shepherd
THE RECESSES
from The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
A FACE ON WHICH TIME MAKES BUT LITTLE IMPRESSION
selected extracts from The Grasmere Journal
Dorothy Wordsworth
from The Guardian Country Diary
Enid J. Wilson
ICE AND THE OTTERS
NIGHTWALKING
A Wild Childhood
Untamed
Shamshad Khan
from The Autobiography
John Clare
from Kith
Jay Griffiths
THE PATRON SAINT OF CHILDHOOD
On Class and the Countryside
Anita Sethi
from Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
Chris Packham
THE POND
Woods
from The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
THE WILD WOOD
from Gossip from the Forest
Sara Maitland
MARCH - AIRYOLLAND WOOD
from The Tree
John Fowles
from Underland
Robert Macfarlane
An Elegy for Lignum Vitae
Zakiya McKenzie
Swimming
from Waterlog
Roger Deakin
THE WASH
from Tarka the Otter
Henry Williamson
from Ring of Bright Water
Gavin Maxwell
from Otter Country
Miriam Darlington
from Swimming with Seals
Victoria Whitworth
Islands and Coastlines
from Bird Watching on Scolt Head
E. L. Turner
SCOLT HEAD
Hypnagogia
Caspar Henderson
from Waterfalls of Stars
Rosanne Alexander
from Sea Room
Adam Nicolson
from Tide-race
Brenda Chamberlain
1
2
3
4
5
6
from Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage
Tim Robinson
WRITING ON THE BEACH
A Nature Cure
Reccolections &c of Journey from Essex
John Clare
from Peig
Peig Sayers
from The Outrun
Amy Liptrot
THE CORNCRAKE WIFE
from H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
EXTINCTION
Urban Nature
from The Unofficial Countryside
Richard Mabey
from The Moth Snowstorm
Michael McCarthy
from Being a Beast
Charles Foster
ISLAND 1
ISLAND 2
ISLAND 3
ISLAND 4
Stag Beetles
Anita Roy
Discomfort, Dystopia, Death
from A Line Made by Walking
Sara Baume
from The Dig
Cynan Jones
from The Secret Life of Flies
Erica McAlister
THE NECROPHAGES
from After London
Richard Jefferies
THE GREAT FOREST
WILD ANIMALS
A Fable for Today
Kapka Kassabova
Future Nature
from To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
from A Land
Jacquetta Hawkes
LAND AND MACHINES
from Our Place
Mark Cocker
from Feral
George Monbiot
GREENING THE DESERT
from The Wolf Border
Sarah Hall
from On Extinction
Melanie Challenger
The Joy of Nature
from Brendon Chase
BB
from Running for the Hills
Horatio Clare
from Skelligs Calling
Michael Kirby
THE SOFT SOUTH WIND OF SKELLIGS
Acknowledgements
Extended Copyright
About the Author
An Invitation from the Publisher
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