Galloway: Life in a Vanishing Landscape
By: Patrick Laurie
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
On the land of his ancestors in Scotland, a young farmer struggles to find a balance between farmin…
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1. The Dust That Falls from Dreams
By: Louis de Bernières
3.61
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In the brief golden years of King Edward VII’s reign, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growin… read more
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2. A Woman in the Polar Night
By: Christiane Ritter
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
For most of us, the Arctic conjures up images of freezing and forsaken solitude. Hence, Austrian pa… read more
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3. How Green Was My Valley
By: Richard Llewellyn
4.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Val… read more
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4. Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field
By: John Lewis-Stempel
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What really goes on in the long grass? Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an Englis… read more
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5. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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6. The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
By: James Rebanks
4.18
Format: 578 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James … read more
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7. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
8. Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
By: Shaun Bythell
4.01
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the own… read more
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"Money can't buy happiness, BUT it can buy books (which is basically the same thing)."-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
"There's a difference between a book being too expensive and a customer being too cheap."-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
"On the news this morning was a story about four men who have been abducted from a bookshop in Hong Kong for disseminating literature critical of the Chinese regime. Bookselling can be a perilous busi…"-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
"Коли я виставляв ціни на видання, до мене підійшов старший чоловік і попросив: - Не допоможете мені знайти книжки із самодопомоги? Певний, що він не помітив у цій фразі суперечності, я спитав, яка са…"-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
9. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
By: Matthew Green
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale o… read more
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10. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
11. The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
3.78
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
During a painting retreat, a killer takes a creative approach to the ancient art of murder... Th… read more
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"One of these days you’ll go too far, and somebody will murder you.' 'I shouldn’t be in the least surprised,' said Lord Peter, pleasantly."-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)
"What's that, mister?" "That's the green for the gentleman's coat. No--don't pinch it, or you'll get it all over you. Yes, you can put the cap on. Yes, that's to keep it from drying up. Yes, put it ba…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)
12. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
By: James Rebanks
4.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more
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- environment
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"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
13. The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology
By: Mark Boyle
3.94
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
It was 11:00 pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped … read more
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14. The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
By: Nick Hayes
4.45
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A meditation on the fraught and complex relationship between land, politics and power, this is Engl… read more
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15. A Short History of the World According to Sheep
By: Sally Coulthard
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An addictively free-ranging survey of the huge impact that sheep have had on human history. From… read more
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16. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
By: Helen Rebanks
3.89
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more
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17. Galloway: Life in a Vanishing Landscape
By: Patrick Laurie
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
On the land of his ancestors in Scotland, a young farmer struggles to find a balance between farmin… read more
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18. On Gallows Down: Place, Protest and Belonging
By: Nicola Chester
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Part nature writing, part memoir, On Gallows Down is an essential, unforgettable read for fans of H… read more
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19. Restoring the Wild: Sixty Years of Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and Waterways
By: Roy Dennis
3.98
Format: 452 pages, Hardcover
The distinctive white-tailed sea eagle was driven to extinction in Britain more than 200 years ago,… read more
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20. Land Healer: How Farming Can Save Britain’s Countryside
By: Jake Fiennes
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
'Jake Fiennes is changing the face of farming in Britain... a revolutionising force' Isabella Tree … read more
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21. Wayfarer: Love, loss and life on Britain's ancient paths
By: Phoebe Smith
3.56
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
A woman’s tale of the transformative power of walking on Britain’s ancient pilgrim paths. Faced … read more
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