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During the early 1970s Richard Mabey set about mapping his
unofficial countryside. He walked crumbling city docks and
overgrown bomb sites, navigating inner city canals and car parks,
exploring sewage works, gravel pits, rubbish tips. What he
discovered runs deeper than a natural history of our suburbs and
cities. The Unofficial Countryside prescribes another way of
seeing, another way of experiencing nature in our daily lives. Wild
flowers glimpsed from a commuter train. A kestrel hawking above a
public park. Enchanter's nightshade growing through pavement
cracks. Fox cubs playing on a motorway's scrubby fringe. There is a
scarcely a nook in our urban landscape incapable of supporting
life. It is an inspiration to find this abundance, to discover how
plants, birds, mammals and insects flourish against the odds in the
most obscure and surprising places.
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