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Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees by Richard Mabey
29.99 NZD
Category: History
Richard Mabey's new book is about beech trees - but also, of course, about numerous other issues, including global warming and the importance of trees in the landscape. Trees are the largest and most significant organisms on our planet; and this is Mabey's most poetic, most enjoyable, most profound and ...Show more
Beechcombings : The narratives of trees by Richard Mabey
69.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Beech trees reached Britain about 8,000 years ago, and they were workhorses, not ornaments - fuel for Rome's glassworks; firewood for London; oars for the ships of Venice; raw material for furniture, cut and turned by 'bodgers' who lived like nomads among the trees in huts made of beechwood shavings. Ma ...Show more
Nature Cure by Richard Mabey
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression. For two years, he did little more than lie in bed with his face to a wall. He could neither work nor play. His money ran out. Worst of all, the natural world - which since childhood ha ...Show more
Nature Cure by Richard Mabey
27.99 NZD
35.00 (20% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression. For two years, he did little more than lie in bed with his face to a wall. He could neither work nor play. His money ran out. Worst of all, the natural world - which since childhood ha ...Show more
The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination by Richard Mabey
49.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
In Richard Mabey's characteristically lyrical and informative tone, The Cabaret of Plants explores plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken that clichéd but real human emotion of wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief. Picked from every walk of life, ...Show more
The Frampton Flora: The Secrets of Frampton Court Gardens by Richard Mabey
65.00 NZD
69.99 (7% off)
Category: Coffee Table Books | Reading Level: very good
Offers a collection of Victorian botanical paintings discovered in the attic of Frampton Court in Gloucestershire over a century after they were created. This work includes paintings that have come to light since the original discovery. It describes the paintings and the family, and relates it to the ri ...Show more
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