THE UNOFFICIAL COUNTRYSIDE (Nature Classics Library) - Softcover

Fiell, Charlotte & Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956254551 ISBN 13: 9780956254559

Verlag: LITTLE TOLLER BOOKS, 2010

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Light wear to cover, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

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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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During the early 1970s Richard Mabey explored crumbling city docks and overgrown bomb-sites, navigated inner city canals and car parks, and discovered there was scarcely a nook in our urban landscape incapable of supporting life. The Unofficial Countryside is a timely reminder of how nature flourishes against the odds, surviving in the most obscure and surprising places. First published 1973 by William Collins Sons & Co.

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• Verlag: LITTLE TOLLER BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0956254551
• ISBN 13: 9780956254559
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184