Copsford

Author: Walter J C Murray
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In 1920 a young man, Walter Murray, spent a year in a derelict cottage, Copsford, working in lonely countryside among the wild animals and birds, with only a dog, Floss, for companionship. From the beginning, Murray has to fight not only the rats that infest his inhospitable house, and the elements outside, but also a loneliness that he finds soul-shatteringly oppressive. But Murray comes to delight in his simple life, despite its deprivations. Above all, he appreciates the wildlife he experiences in meadow and woodland, the animals and insects, birds and butterflies. And he comes to a deeper understanding of plants and trees, the sun, wind, rain, frost and snow. Copsford is an under-appreciated classic of the English countryside, delighting not only in flora and fauna, but in scent, colour, sound and movement. In beautiful and sensitive prose Murray expresses a vivid depth of feeling for nature that makes Copsford a tour de force of nature mysticism. This new edition also contains Murray's essay, 'Voices of Trees', and an Introduction by R.B. Russell

Copsford

Author: Walter J. C. MURRAY
Publisher: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9781908213709
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
A beautifully written book describing Mans' desire to be at one with Nature.

The Copsford Mystery

Author: William Clark Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444

Book Description

Farmer's Glory

Author: A. G. Street
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Farmer's Glory" by A. G. Street. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Frigate Commander

Author: Tom Wareham
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783032324
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494

Book Description
The naval historian presents the thrilling true story of a Royal Navy officer’s frigate command in the tumultuous late 18th and early 19th centuries. Based on the private journals of Admiral Sir Graham Moore, Frigate Commander recounts his experiences as a Lieutenant and then Captain during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Moore's journal gives a detailed account of life as a serving naval officer, revealing the unique problems of managing a frigate crew, maintaining discipline and turning his ship into an efficient man of war. Moore was one of the Royal Navy's star captains, serving continuously as a frigate commander between 1793 and 1804. His early career took him to Newfoundland before serving with Sir William Sidney Smith's squadron on the north coast of France. Moore was present during the Naval Mutiny at Spithead in 1797, and helped to destroy the French fleet off Ireland in 1798. His most famous action occurred in September 1804, when his squadron captured a Spanish frigate squadron carrying a fortune in treasure. The following year his frigate, HMS Indefatigable, was involved in the opening of the Trafalgar Campaign.

The Green Man of Horam

Author: Tom Wareham
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781981320417
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
Walter John Campbell Murray was well known in Horam, East Sussex, as the Head Teacher of Murray's School. He was also a devoted naturalist, writer, photographer, lecturer and radio broadcaster. His best known book, Copsford, still has a small but devoted cult following. In this book Tom Wareham presents an outline of Walter Murray's life and work, and argues that a close reading of his writing provides strong and hitherto unrecognised evidence of his mystical relationship with Nature. "An illuminating and important investigation into the 'lost' work and life of Walter Murray, landscape mystic, writer, broadcaster and pioneering 'nature writer' - if ever there was one. In this considered and thoroughly researched portrait, Wareham pieces together his writing and biography with a commendable passion, uncovering - in this time of schism - the thoughts and feelings of a man who saw '...the brotherhood of life in all living things'." Rob Cowen (Skimming Stones and Other Ways of Being in the Wild, Common Ground )

The Wild Silence

Author: Raynor Winn
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525507957
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “Heartfelt and heartening … a full-throated paean to the fundamental importance of nature in all its glory, fury and impermanence." —Wall Street Journal The incredible follow-up to the international bestseller The Salt Path, a story of finding your way back home. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking 630 homeless miles along The Salt Path, living on the windswept and wild English coastline; the cliffs, the sky and the chalky earth now feel like their home. Moth has a terminal diagnosis, but together on the wild coastal path, with their feet firmly rooted outdoors, they discover that anything is possible. Now, life beyond The Salt Path awaits and they come back to four walls, but the sense of home is illusive and returning to normality is proving difficult - until an incredible gesture by someone who reads their story changes everything. A chance to breathe life back into a beautiful farmhouse nestled deep in the Cornish hills; rewilding the land and returning nature to its hedgerows becomes their saving grace and their new path to follow. The Wild Silence is a story of hope triumphing over despair, of lifelong love prevailing over everything. It is a luminous account of the human spirit's connection to nature, and how vital it is for us all.

Sweet Thames Run Softly

Author: Robert Gibbings
Publisher: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9781908213068
Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A charming account of an artist-naturalist adrift in a home-made punt on the eve of the Second World War.

Fresh Woods

Author: Ian Niall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908213082
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Ian Niall's sublime elegy to a forgotten world: life as a boy on a farm in Galloway in the 1920s.

The Making of the English Landscape

Author: W. G. Hoskins
Publisher: Nature Classics Library
ISBN: 9781908213105
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The classic text of English landscape history, ground-breaking and hugely influential.