jenks
thread death
I have just been reading Wildwood by Roger Deakin and have recently finished Nature Cure by Richard Mayby and have Crow Country by Mark Cocker on my to be read pile.
I was wondering a number of things - are we seeing a flowering of decent writing on nature/ the natural world? These are all book I would never have normally picked up but for the marvellous reviews they have received. Maybe the reviewers are more willing to stray out of their History/Biography/Fiction ambit?
The second thought I had was more to do with age - is it one of those things that come with being older - the contemplative study of the natural world being an old geezer's game? I know that some on the list may disagree, the only time I met Craner and Luka was on a walk in Walton on the Naze and they seemed to have a pretty impressive grasp of the natural world.
Finally, what books would others recommend to follow up this trio? I was looking at the FT Saturday mag and there was an article on a five day walk on The Ridgeway from Overton Hill to Ivinghoe Beacon and for the first time in my life I thought 'I'd like to do something like that (without the kids, obviously)'
I was wondering a number of things - are we seeing a flowering of decent writing on nature/ the natural world? These are all book I would never have normally picked up but for the marvellous reviews they have received. Maybe the reviewers are more willing to stray out of their History/Biography/Fiction ambit?
The second thought I had was more to do with age - is it one of those things that come with being older - the contemplative study of the natural world being an old geezer's game? I know that some on the list may disagree, the only time I met Craner and Luka was on a walk in Walton on the Naze and they seemed to have a pretty impressive grasp of the natural world.
Finally, what books would others recommend to follow up this trio? I was looking at the FT Saturday mag and there was an article on a five day walk on The Ridgeway from Overton Hill to Ivinghoe Beacon and for the first time in my life I thought 'I'd like to do something like that (without the kids, obviously)'