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With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds...

Written in diary format, The Wood is the story of English woodlands as they change with the seasons. Lyrical and informative,...

Great nature writing needs to be informative, detailed, accurate, lyrical, and, above all, to instil a sense of gratitude and...

The Wild Life is John Lewis-Stempel's account of twelve months eating only food shot, caught or foraged from the fields, hedges,...

Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the...

Water voles are small, brownish, bewhiskered and charming. Made famous by 'Ratty' in The Wind in the Willows, once they were a...

Join the Nicholson family for this heartwarming journey through a typical springtime on their South Yorkshire farm.

Throughout...

In this indispensable follow up to his acclaimed The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World, Charles Clover...

How do we rein in the power of Big Tech?
How do we tackle the climate crisis?
How can all of us play a part in making change...

A far-reaching, urgent, and thoroughly engaging exploration of our relationship with animals - from the acclaimed Financial Times...

Did you know that pigs frequently throw tantrums?
That chickens are capable of complex communication?
That sheep know their own...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Sting In The Tale comes this practical guide to creating a paradise for...

From the bestselling author of The Robin, The Wren and The Twelve Birds of Christmas.

With around 700,000 breeding pairs, the...

A journey of discovery through our natural world.

Bushcraft and survival legend Ray Mears takes us on his own lifetime's...

The Banksy of The Bird World shares simple wisdom to help the birds we love to thrive.

Bestselling author and illustrator,...

Climate Change researcher, Seth Wynes, sets out in the simplest terms how you can make a real and positive impact.

Make...

Litter on our streets, plastics in our seas, overflowing landfill, fatbergs... Do you know where your rubbish ends up?

We are...

This is the story of a landmark RSPB project to restore over 3,000 hectares of the Lake District, from the tiniest wildflowers up...

I look at the Ryeland ewes, white and fat with fecundity. Replete with contentment.

Contentment is a transmissible condition....

"I adore the fox for its magnificence; I hate the fox for killing my chickens.
To love and loathe the fox is a British...

'The oak is the wooden tie between heaven and earth. It is the lynch pin of the British landscape.'

The oak is our most...

"How to describe the ecstatic song of larks? How the writers and poets have tried..."

Skylarks are the heralds of our...

From the Paleozoic volcanoes that stained its soil, to the Saxons who occupied it, to the Tudors who traded its wool, to the Land...

'Dusk is filling the valley. It is the time of the gloaming, the owl-light.
Out in the wood, the resident tawny has started...

'To see a hare sit still as stone, to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning, to witness a hare bolt . . . these are great...

"On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them...

Discover the lost art of reading nature's own signposts with this beautiful tenth anniversary edition of The Natural...

This wild flower identification guide was first published in 1981 and is still widely accepted as the best of its kind for its...

The Language of the Genes and In the Blood revisits Darwin's The Origin of Species, and updates it for the twenty-first...

Jim Al-Khalili is about to untangle the world's greatest science conundrums...

How does the fact that it gets dark at night...