Author: Richard MabeyPublisher: Richard Mabey Library
ISBN: 9781908213938
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nature Cure
Author: Richard MabeyPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813926216
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Richard Mabey is the author of numerous books on Britain's ecology, including the best-selling Flora Britannica and the Whitbread Prize-winning Gilbert White (Virginia).
Author: Edward ThomasA Good Parcel of English Soil
Author: Richard MabeyPublisher: Particular Books
ISBN: 9781846146169
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Richard Mabey, one of Britain's leading nature writers, looks at the relationship between city and country, and how this brings out the power of nature. Exploring the creation of 'Metro-land' as a powerful symbol of the English ruralist myth, 'A Good Parcel of English Soil' looks at how individuals become sensitised to nature in the hybrid environment of the suburbs.
Author: Simon CostinEdgelands
Author: Michael Symmons RobertsPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409028429
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The wilderness is much closer than you think. Passed through, negotiated, unnamed, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have become the great wild places on our doorsteps. In the same way the Romantic writers taught us to look at hills, lakes and rivers, poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts write about mobile masts and gravel pits, business parks and landfill sites, taking the reader on a journey to marvel at these richly mysterious, forgotten regions in our midst. Edgelands forms a critique of what we value as 'wild', and allows our allotments, railways, motorways, wasteland and water a presence in the world, and a strange beauty all of their own.
Unofficial Britain
Author: Gareth E. ReesPublisher: Elliott & Thompson
ISBN: 9781783965960
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
There is a Britain that exists outside of the official histories and guidebooks - places that lie on the margins, left behind. This is a land of industrial estates and electricity pylons, of motorways and ring roads, of hospitals and housing estates, of roundabouts and flyovers. Places where modern life speeds past but where people and stories nevertheless collect: ghost sightings, first kisses, experiments with drugs, refuges for the homeless, hangouts for the outcasts. Struck by the power of such stories and experiences, Gareth E. Rees set out to explore these mundane and neglected spaces, which can be as powerfully influential in our lives, and imaginations, as any picture postcard tourist destination. This is Unofficial Britain, a personal journey along the edges of a landscape brimming with mystery, folklore and myth.
Soft Estate
Author: Edward ChellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780953899678
Category : Painting, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Edward Chell investigates motorway landscapes, linking these with eighteenth century ideas of the Picturesque which were formed at a time when commerce and tourism drove the development of roads and laid the foundations of today's network.Soft Estate features art works by Chell which explore the interface between history, ecology and speed, alongside essays giving new perspectives on how roads and travel have shaped both what we see and how we look at it.'These verges and 'island' hyper-landscapes, pulsing with wildlife, contain worlds where our rapid through-transit alters our sense of scale, which is simultaneously diminished and increased,' says Chell. 'Through making these paintings I've become acutely aware of the visual and metaphorical richness of these fragile, yet self-sustaining and tough environments.'The publication, with foreword by Bluecoat director Bryan Biggs includes essays by curator Sara-Jayne Parsons, artist and academic, Edward Chell and the environmental activist and author Richard Mabey.This publication accompanies the exhibition, Soft Estate at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, December 2013 - March 2014.
Author: Wai-Kong So
Author: Wai-kong So