In this book, Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields spread
around the world: their grasses, their hedges, their birds, their
skies, and both their natural and human histories. These four
fields--walkable, mappable, man-made, mowable, knowable, but also
secretive, mysterious, wild, contested, and changing--play central
roles in the sweeping panorama of world history and in the lives of
individuals. In Dee's telling, a field is never just a setting for
great battles or natural disasters, though it is often this as
well. A field is the oldest and simplest and truest measure of what
a man needs in life, especially when looked at, contemplated,
worked in, lived with, and written about. Dee's four fields, which
he has known and studied for more than twenty years, are the fen
field at the bottom of his private garden, a field in southern
Zambia, a prairie in Little Bighorn, Montana, and a grass meadow in
the Exclusion Zone at Chernobyl, Ukraine. Meditating on these four
fields, Dee makes us look anew at where we live and how. He argues
that we must attend to what we have made of the wild. We must look
at and think about the way we have betrayed nature. And we must
also notice the way in which we have maintained her through the
conversations we continue to conduct with grass and fields.
Shortlisted for the 2014 Ondaatje Prize, one of the very best of
the new nature writers meditates on the relationship between man
and grass. "He pushes the boundaries of nature writing, creating a
form that is lyrical but deeply alert to ecological crisis."
(Miriam Darlington BBC Wildlife) "Dee's writing is often quietly
poetic, with the spirit of Gerard Manley Hopkins hovering
overhead." (Jon Day Daily Telegraph)
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