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Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > The countryside, country life
Yorkshire is by far the largest county in England, taking up most
of the land area from Sheffield in the south to Cleveland in the
north. Covering such a large area between the North Sea and the
Pennine watershed, the variety of landscapes is astonishing, and in
this book you will get a taste of much of it. Our tour starts in
the rolling, highly urbanised south, then climbs into the Pennines
where high heather-clad moorland is bisected by valleys full of
industrial heritage. Heading north, the landscape transforms into
the limestone pavements and glacial valleys of the Dales where
sheep graze peacefully on high grassland. The central Plain of York
is the next area with its ancient castles and fertile farmland
under a huge sky. To the east rises the scarp of the North
Yorkshire Moors where high moorland and remote valleys stretch all
the way to the gull-strewn North Sea cliffs. Turning south, we
explore the gentle countryside of the Yorkshire Wolds. The final
destination is the banks of the River Humber from the industrial
plain to Yorkshire's furthest outpost at Spurn Head. Doug Kennedy
has roamed Yorkshire's lanes, byways and footpaths, seeking out
what makes each place special and applying his photographer's eye
to capture the scene perfectly in sumptuous photographic images.
These are complemented by informative text that gets underneath the
surface of why things look like they do. It is a book for everyone
who loves the Yorkshire to treasure, and a splendid introduction to
its landscape for those less familiar with 'God's Own County'.
From Dorset's iconic Jurassic Coast to the picturesque Cotswolds
and the rugged Peaks, join Julia Bradbury as she travels across
Britain in search of the perfect walk, the perfect view - and the
perfect pub. Britain is a nation of walkers. Walking is ingrained
in our identity - and our passion for the countryside is stronger
than ever. Unforgettable Walks takes us on eight of our beloved
paths, showcasing Britain's diverse and beautiful landscape at its
very best. Follow in Julia's footsteps as she explores the flora
and fauna and shares the stories past and present of the people she
meets along the way, and her own experiences. With beautiful
hand-drawn maps, illustrations - and tips for local pubs and sights
- this book will fit as well on a bookshelf as in a rucksack. The
Walks Dorset: The Golden Cap Walk Cotswolds: The Cleeve Hill Walk
Anglesey: The Snowdon View Walk Yorkshire Dales: The Malham Cove
Walk Lake District: The Borrowdale Valley Walk Cumbria: The High
Cup Nick Walk South Downs: The Birling Gap Walk Peak District: The
Kinder Scout Walk
Seton Gordon really created himself as naturalist, photographer and
writer, the first such in the country, his first book appearing
when he was eighteen. In all he wrote 27 books, two specifically
about the Cairngorms where he grew up and first explored and
returned to many times throughout his long life. He wrote with a
revelational wonder and freshness, writing in poetic prose
descriptions only possible by someone intimately at home in the
hills with their interacting, connected features: birds, plants,
trees, geology, weather, Gaelic culture, place names, history,
folklore - an ecologist before the word was coined. Hamish Brown
selected passages for "Seton Gordon's Scotland" and has now made a
fascinating choice from Seton Gordon's extensive writings about the
Cairngorms. There are descriptions of hill days throughout the
seasons and intimate descriptions of wildlife. Seton Gordon lived
to a great age but the Cairngorms were his first, young man's
enthusiasm. Hamish Brown, no mean mountaineer and lover of the
outdoors, has garnered biographical material and archive pictures
for a book which everyone with an interest in the Scottish hills
will welcome.
Rogue Intensities is a memoir grounded in Tasmania, with a richness
of storytelling which emerges from the space between human, nature
and environmental threads. It manages to straddle the intimate and
the universal with ease a great deal of delight. The exploration of
the Australian landscape through prose is a core tenet of
Australian literature and the UWAP has been successful in finding a
shining example of this in Rogue intensities. This work
successfully adds to this canon in a way that extends it and
enriches writing alongside it. 'Rogue Intensities is an uncannily
timely work, its aesthetic achievement is deeply embedded in urgent
concerns of our current moment. It breaks down the artificial
divisions between science, art, creative production and history to
forge an original perspective and a model of connection between the
creative processes of nature, knowledge and writing. Angela manages
to create intimacy with the elements of the observable world and
with experiences through a careful detachment, which is akin to
scientific record. Rogue Intensities engages the reader with what
Hayden White termed the great 'pleasure of information' about
creatures, the atmosphere, the weather, landscape, seasons, as they
are encountered in everyday life. There is a great joy in this text
of discovery - as if writer and reader were encyclopaedists who
have been granted permission to wonder at the world. I know of no
other contemporary text that does this.' - Associate Professor
Elizabeth McMahon, UNSW
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Whispers of an Old Soul
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Roman Garreis; Edited by Elizabeth Coletti; Designed by Anna Faktorovich
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