Quite enjoyed Horatio Clare's "Orison for a Curlew", about his search to see a slender-billed curlew ... particularly as he notes on the first page that he doesn't see one and it is probably extinct.
I stall on Gilbert White's "The Natural History of Selborne" but have picked it up again - I hadn't realised until flicking back through this thread that I started it over a year ago.
― djh, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 23:30 (seven years ago) link
Not strictly a "nature" book but a combination of writing about an allotment and a memoir about growing up in the foster system but Allan Jenkins' Plot 29 is well worth a read.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/31/plot-29-a-memoir-by-allan-jenkins-review
― djh, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 08:12 (seven years ago) link
Not strictly a book at all, but a lovely documentary on BBC2 about Helen Macdonald getting and training a new goshawk: Natural World, 2017-2018: 7. H is for Hawk: A New Chapter: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09b68wy
It treads some of the same fine, slightly mawkish, lines as the book but that's OK.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
Any "river" book recommendations? It will be for a present for someone who potters in a canoe.
― djh, Saturday, 30 December 2017 23:45 (six years ago) link
Weirdly, I haven't read any of this year's Wainwright Book Prize shortlist.
― djh, Monday, 23 July 2018 06:29 (five years ago) link
The Last Wilderness by Neil Ansell (Tinder Press)
Hidden Nature by Alys Fowler (Hodder & Stoughton)
Outskirts by John Grindrod (Sceptre)
The Dun Cow Rib by John Lister-Kaye (Canongate)
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris (Hamish Hamilton)
The Seabird’s Cry by Adam Nicolson (William Collins, HarperCollins)
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn (Michael Joseph)
― djh, Monday, 23 July 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
This is probably a bit shameless, but I've been writing this on and off for a few years; I stopped writing for various reasons (work, purpose) but put something up today:
https://somesmallcorner.co.uk/
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Saturday, 22 September 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
Any nature book recommendations for pre-school children?
― djh, Monday, 24 September 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
According to their Twitter account, a distributor handling Little Toller's books has gone into administration, losing them fairly horrendous amounts of money.
I think they'd appreciate purchases from their website, right now:
https://www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/
― djh, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
Anyone read Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life? (Sheldrake appears in Robert Macfarlane's Underlands.)
― djh, Monday, 24 January 2022 19:38 (two years ago) link
I'm a couple of chapters in. It's fascinating. Been reading his dad's The Science Delusion too, tangentially
― ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 24 January 2022 21:08 (two years ago) link
Thanks or something. The bits in Underland are fascinating too - was intrigued if this translated into a good book of his own. Will buy!
― djh, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 22:06 (two years ago) link
Had a scan through this thread and wondered ... how did I actually find the time to do anything else?
"Amy Liptrot's column should definitely be a book" made me laugh, though.
― djh, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 22:19 (two years ago) link