The Consolation of Nature

Spring in the Time of Coronavirus

The Consolation of Nature
Jeremy Mynott, Michael McCarthy, Peter Marren
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Hardback
h218 x 138mm - 240pg
15 Oct 2020 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781529349153
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' What joy! . . . There' s acute and beautiful observation on every page, thrown into exquisite relief by the poignancy of the circumstances. ' -Isabella Tree' A powerful and moving reflection on the solace brought by nature and its power as a balm for stressed-out lives. ' -Caroline Lucas, Green MPThree nature writers, living like everyone else under lockdown, but walking out each day to exercise, resolved to record their experiences of the coronavirus spring, in widely contrasting parts of the country. They did so to share with others their sense of the wonder, inspiration and delight the natural world can offer, and The Consolation of Nature is the enthralling account of what they discovered by literally walking out from their front doors.
A powerful and moving reflection on the solace brought by nature and its power as a balm for stressed-out lives -- Caroline Lucas MP What joy - three of our greatest nature writers in one book! What they felt under lockdown is surely what we all felt, that primal need to be out in nature - balm for body and soul. There' s acute and beautiful observation on every page, thrown into exquisite relief by the poignancy of the circumstances. Against the backdrop of anxiety and doubt, their experiences bear witness to the inspiring and ever-hopeful lesson that nature can heal itself - and us - if we let it. -- Isabella Tree They all write superbly and their styles and perspectives are sufficiently different to add variety to the passage. . . but not so different that any grates with the others. It is so beautifully written -- Mark Avery As expected from these three authors, it is beautifully written, but it is also extremely evocative. -- Martin Harper, Global Conservation Director RSPB
Michael McCarthy (Author) Michael McCarthy is one of Britain' s leading environmental journalists, formerly environment correspondent of The Times and environment editor of The Independent. He has won a string of awards for his writing, including the Medal of the RSPB, for ' outstanding services to conservation. ' His book Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo (2009), a study of Britain' s summer migrant birds, was widely praised; The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy (2015) was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize and the Richard Jefferies Prize. Jeremy Mynott (Author) Jeremy Mynott is a classical scholar, Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and former Chief Executive of Cambridge University Press. He is the author of various books on wildlife and nature. Birdscapes: birds in our experience and imagination (2009) was described by one reviewer as ' the finest book ever written on why we watch birds' . His latest book, Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words (2018), was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize and was a TLS ' Book of the Year' . Peter Marren (Author) Peter Marren is a nature writer and commentator, author of Bugs Britannica, Rainbow Dust, Chasing the Ghost and many other books on British plants, insects, and the countryside. He won the BSBI President' s Prize for Britain' s Rare Flowers, which was also runner-up for the Natural World Book Prize. He was awarded the Thackray Medal for The New Naturalists by the Society for the History of Natural History. His satirical column in British Wildlife magazine, Twitcher in the Swamp, has a cult following.
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ISBN-13: 9781529349153
Published: 15 Oct 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hodder Studio
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Hardback
Height: 218mm
Width: 138mm
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 320g
Pages: 240

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