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Introduced by James Rebanks. This is a new edition of the classic about farming life, first published in 1932.

Eagle Country is the record of quest in the wild places of Mayo and the west of Ireland for eagles, past and present. What began as a series of walks along the roads close to the author's home, exploring the fractal of country lanes extended into an investigation into landscapes in the search for eagles and other wildlife.

The poet Clare Best and the artist Mary Anne Aytoun went in search of pools of water that are concealed, overlooked or hidden in the South Downs of southern England. They found places and whole landscapes rich in history, wildlife, culture and myth. This book presents the work they made about some of those watery places.

The Local takes us through the pubs of London on the eve of the Second World War. With Edward Ardizzone and Maurice Gorham as our guides, we experience a vanished world of tin whistle musicians, Jug-and-Bottle and Ladies' Bars, games of dominoes, pints of mother-in-law and wallop. Edward Ardizzone remains one of Britain's best-loved artists. He was at his happiest in London's pubs, and nowhere is this affection better illustrated than in The L...

Adrian Bell's travels through East Anglia and lowland Britain capture the character of the countryside before modern agriculture altered the landscape and changed forever the way we eat and live.

First published in 1940 by J.M. Dent & Sons"--Title page verso.

Kenneth Allsop, a famous television presenter and literary man-about-town, left London and settled in ancient forests and chalk streams of west Dorset. In this book his writings speaks in defense of the natural world and stands firmly against the unchecked exploitation of the land.

The Military Orchid is a comic masterpiece - a blend of botany, memoir and satire, the story of Jocelyn Brooke's obsession with one flower - the Orchis Militaris, the military orchid.

When the author settled on Skokholm, an uninhabited island off the Pembrokeshire coast, he was 24 years old. It was a boyhood dream to be with birds and flowers in some remote place', to live like Robinson Crusoe. But when war broke out in September 1939, this dream island life had to be abandoned.

Through the story of one man, Caleb Bawcombe, a shepherd whose flocks graze the Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset borders, this title features men and women of humble birth - poachers, gypsies, farmers and laborers - striving to survive on the land.

Salar the salmon's migration through the rivers of Devon - surviving porpoises, seals, nets, fishermen, otters, poachers & weirs - is one of nature's great journeys. Intense, brilliantly imagined, the salmon's perilous return leaves us with a vivid, unsentimental picture of how both people & wildlife rely on a river & its estuary.

Clare Leighton was one of the finest engravers of the twentieth century. This is the story of the garden she carved from meadowland deep in the Chiltern Hills in the 1930s.

Acutely sensitive to rhythms of the countryside, Edward Thomas's lyrical, passionate, and sometimes political writing merges natural history with folk culture, and gives us a free-form record of the feelings and observations of one of the great poets of the English language. First published 1909 by J.M. Dent & Sons

The classic text, now with all the illustrations from the first edition. Ring of Bright Water is an account of the author's life at Camusfearna, a remote cottage in the western Highlands of Scotland. This book also focuses on the two otters, Mijbil and Edal, who became his constant and much-loved companions.

Set in Kent, the author returns to those trees of his youth to breath life into the changing character of a single woodland year. He reveals how precious they are to the English countryside.

Unhappily land-locked in his early adult life, the authors' fortunes changed when he began visiting Scotland's west coast in the 1930s. He made temporary homes with his family on some of the remotest Hebridean islands so he could study the habits of grey seals and seabirds. This book tells about his life on island.

This is one of the finest books ever written on the Lake District.

Food rationing, blackouts, and the threat of invasion became part of everyday life in Britain during the Second World War. Yet despite the wartime austerity and growing mood of unease, the author and his wife went about their business in Suffolk, happil.

During an outbreak of meningitis in Glasgow in the 1920s. The author was sent to live with his grandparents, then tenants of North Clutag Farm, Galloway, in south-west Scotland. He tells us how rare this sort of childhood has become, and how wonderful it must have been to roam so freely, absorbing the rhythms of the countryside.

Written by a woman who refused to acknowledge the social divisions that keep us apart, A Time From the World is an intimate account of a Gypsy culture that is repeatedly sensationalised, glamourised, demonised, and just plain misunderstood.