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The Unofficial Countryside Book

The Unofficial Countryside 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 Wi Full descriptionRead More

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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.

  • Blackwell

    Shows how animal and plant life survive and often thrive among docklands, railways, factories and canals. Richard Mabey reveals the astonishingly rich world of animal and plant life surviving and often thriving among docklands, railways...

  • Pickabook

    Richard Mabey, Mary Newcomb (Illus)

  • 0956254551
  • 9780956254559
  • Richard Mabey
  • 7 May 2010
  • Little Toller Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 184
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