false 225958 0 0 569894 068481577X 9780684815770 6 <![CDATA[The New Age Herbalist: How to Use Herbs for Healing, Nutrition, Body Care, and Relaxation]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175883534m/569894.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/569894.The_New_Age_Herbalist_How_to_Use_Herbs_for_Healing_Nutrition_Body_Care_and_Relaxation 4.07 41 The New Age Herbalist is a compendium of healthy alternatives, an indispensable guide for contemporary natural living. Created by a team of experts, it offers:

A full-color illustrated glossary of more than 200 herbs, describing their properties, active ingredients, and traditional uses around the world

A guide to using herbs for scent, for decoration, and even as chemical-free housekeeping aids

Tips on using herbs for skin care and beauty, by making natural shampoos, lotions, soaps, and cosmetics

A review of culinary herbs, with some unusual recipes that use familiar herbs in delightful new ways

An examination of the growing science of herbal healing, discussing herbal remedies -- including stress relievers -- and the scientific research that validates them

A complete herb gardening plan, with advice on choosing symbiotic herbs, designing and scheduling plantings, and preserving the harvest by freezing and drying

Fascinating, authoritative, packed with information presented in a stunning visual style, The New Age Herbalist will be the home herb user's bible for years to come.

]]> 225958 3.90 97 21 661405 0701176016 9780701176013 5 <![CDATA[Nature Cure]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176865325m/661405.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/661405.Nature_Cure 3.80 15
Richard Mabey had lived his whole life in the Chilterns. As a boy, he had tramped over the hills, bird-watching and botanizing. As a man, he purchased a large wood, which he studied in detail over a number of years. He drew on the experience of the Chilterns in all his writings. When depression dragged him under, he felt as if all this was lost, denied, destroyed. In Nature Cure he describes how he found the courage to change his habitat — from hills and chalk to watery fens and flat open spaces. He moved to Norfolk. He fell in love. Slowly, he started once more to look about him.

Drawing always on the metaphors and myths of nature — the migration of birds, the magic of the changing seasons — he shows how the British countryside increased his understanding of what really matters and restored his sense of delight.]]> 225958 3.90 97 21 1421966 0002198657 9780002198653 1 <![CDATA[Food for Free]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183471200m/1421966.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1421966.Food_for_Free 3.29 7 225958 3.90 97 21 867359 1856193772 9781856193771 1 <![CDATA[Flora Britannica: The Definitive New Guide to Britain's Wild Flowers, Plants and Trees]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179032807m/867359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/867359.Flora_Britannica_The_Definitive_New_Guide_to_Britain_s_Wild_Flowers_Plants_and_Trees 4.00 5 225958 3.90 97 21 2233719 1844139204 9781844139200 3 <![CDATA[Beechcombings]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1213898507m/2233719.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2233719.Beechcombings 3.60 5 225958 3.90 97 21 42896 0670896802 9780670896806 2 <![CDATA[The English Landscape: Its Character and Diversity]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169955358m/42896.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42896.The_English_Landscape_Its_Character_and_Diversity 3.75 4
The English Landscape is a stunning volume of essays and photographs celebrating the breadth, diversity, and delicacy of the English countryside. A distinguished selection of writers such as the Duchess of Devonshire, Richard Mabey, Anna Parord, Christopher Lloyd, Robin Hanbury-Tenbison, Marina Warner, Dame Jennifer Jenkins, and David Bellamy pay homage to their favorite parts of the English landscape. Complete with color photographs and maps, The English Landscape will engage Anglophiles, travel enthusiasts, and literature buffs alike.]]> 225958 3.90 97 21 120377 3.94 65 14 1366381 3.75 4 2 1432746 0099314509 9780099314509 0 <![CDATA[Back to the Roots]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1432746.Back_to_the_Roots 5.00 1 225958 3.90 97 21 133924 5.00 1 0 5780486 0712612327 9780712612326 0 <![CDATA[Gilbert White]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5780486.Gilbert_White 4.00 1 The Natural History of Selborne is one of the most published books in the English language. An environmental study of the eighteenth-century Hampshire parish where White was born and later served as curate, the book is distinguished by the author's meticulous observations of plant and animal life--the "minute particulars"--and his uncanny sense of their interdependence. His book is both the definitive expression of the English love for countryside and a cornerstone of all environmental writing.

In this Whitbread Prize-winning biography, Richard Mabey--whom the Times has called "Britain's foremost nature writer"--looks at the life from which the celebrated work grew. This is not an easy task. Although White's findings did not go unnoticed in his own time (much of the Selborne book's contents are in fact letters to Thomas Pennant, one of the era's leading zoologists), relatively little is known about this minor clergyman, who made twenty pounds a year and rarely ventured outside his parish. Mabey visits not only the public and private records but the environs of Selborne, which survive to this day and are remarkably unchanged. A portrait of exceptional detail emerges, and we begin to see very clearly this singular man whose superb scientific eye was complemented by a patient curiosity (he valued observing over collecting) and an emotional investment in his work that still speaks to us. White typifies the eclectic but intense engagement that has nearly vanished in our era of scientific specialization. We recognize in his work a crucial shift in the human perception of nature--as something benign rather than as an adversary.

The first U.S. edition of this classic biography coincides with a new BBC documentary on Gilbert White, for which Mabey is a featured commentator. These are only the latest reminders of the fascination White's book has exercised upon readers for two centuries.

]]> 225958 3.90 97 21 4759274 0091426901 9780091426903 1 <![CDATA[The Flowering of Britain]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4759274.The_Flowering_of_Britain 4.00 1 225958 3.90 97 21 2411 4.16 86 17 1118092 0192141724 9780192141729 0 <![CDATA[The Oxford Book of Nature Writing]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181144329m/1118092.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1118092.The_Oxford_Book_of_Nature_Writing 4.00 1 step.... Sauntering in any direction, hundreds of these happy sun-plants brushed against my feet and closed over them as if I were wading in liquid gold. The air was sweet with fragrance, and larks sang their blessed songs, rising on the wing as I advanced, then sinking out of sight in the polleny
sod, while myriads of wild bees stirred the lower air with their monotonous hum--monotonous, yet forever fresh and sweet as every-day sunshine." So wrote John Muir exactly one hundred years ago, in a passage that conveys not only the natural beauty of California, but also Muir's great love of the
outdoors.
In The Oxford Book of Nature Writing, John Mabey has brought together a sampler of some of the greatest writings on nature ever penned, in pieces that capture our endless fascination with the natural world. There are passages from ancient writers such as Aesop and Aristotle and Pliny, from the
medieval manuscripts of Albertus Magnus, and from Anton van Leeuwenhoek's descriptions of microscopic animals. Mabey provides excerpts from the prose of the great Romantic writers, including Dorothy and William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge and William Hazlett, from the journals of Henry David
Thoreau and from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's letters on botany, and from the naturalist writings of Charles Darwin, George Audubon, and Alexander von Humboldt. Perhaps most impressive is the gallery of contemporary nature writers represented here--a veritable who's who that includes excerpts from Barry
Lopez's Arctic Dreams, Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac, Loren Eiseley's The Immense Journey, Lewis Thomas's The Lives of a Cell, Bill McKibben's The End of Nature, and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Mabey includes as well the work of scientists such as Nobel Laureate Niko Tinbergen,
Jane Goodall, and Edward O. Wilson, plus pieces from such noted authors as Peter Matthiessen, E.B. White, George Orwell, and Primo Levi.
Here then are two thousand years of great nature writing. Ranging from the fabulous imaginings of medieval bestiaries, to accounts of far-flung expeditions to the corners of the globe, to contemporary science writings that combine beautiful description, scientific accuracy, and ecological concern,
this book will delight everyone who loves nature and the great outdoors as well as all lovers of fine writing.]]> 225958 3.90 97 21