nature writing
Between woods and water
Patrick Barkham pays tribute to the much-missed nature writer, whose core response to the call of the wild animated everything he did
England in infra-red: the beauty of the country at night
Moving stealthily through starlit fields and woods, John Lewis-Stempel marvels at nature’s many dark mysteries
Richard Jefferies: a naturalist under the microscope
Alan Bennett once defined a classic as ‘a book everyone is assumed to have read and forgets if they have…
Formidable black talons…
I often feel slightly sorry for the British nature writer. It’s not an attractive emotion — it sounds patronising —…
Something nasty in the woodshed
I’ve diagnosed myself with early onset cottage-itis. It’s not supposed to happen for another decade, but at 29 I dream…
Enraptured by raptors
The fewer birds there are, the more books about them, particularly of the literary kind. Helen MacDonald’s H is for…
The dying fall of the Fells
At some point during your reading of this book the realisation might dawn, if you didn’t already know about his…
