Richard Mabey

A Brush With Nature - 25 Years of Personal Reflections on Nature ()

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9781409070863

Described as 'Britain's greatest living nature writer', Richard Mabey has revealed his passion for the natural world in eloquent stories for "BBC Wildlife Magazine"...more details
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Beechcombings (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9781856197335

Beech trees reached Britain about 8,000 years ago, and they were workhorses, not ornaments - fuel for Rome's glassworks; firewood for London; oars for the ships of Venice; raw material for furniture...more details
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Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9781844139200

Beech trees reached Britain about 8,000 years ago, and they were workhorses, not ornaments - fuel for Rome's glassworks; firewood for London; oars for the ships of Venice; raw material for furniture...more details
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Collins Food for Free (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9780002198653

This guide to Britain's wild foods, first published in 1972, reflects ever increasing ecoawareness and popular interest in finding different...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:240

USD $33.12

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Collins Gem Food For Free (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9780007183036

Fans of Food for Free will be delighted at this new format - ideal for carrying in a rucksack. Over 100 edible plants are featured together with recipes and other interesting culinary information. With details on how to pick...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:239

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Fencing Paradise: Reflections On The Myths Of Eden (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9781903919316

At the Eden Project 'Nature' is not as elsewhere - it is as once an actual garden and an imitation of Nature in a place that was recently derelict and sterile. Sitting in Eden's Blomes...more details
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Fencing Paradise: Uses and Abuses Of Plants (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9781903919323

The first botanical gardens were set up to gather the world's plants and recreate a Garden of Eden. Using the Eden Project as a springboard, Richard Mabey explores the myth of the Garden of Eden...more details
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Flora Britannica (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9781856193771

This landmark guide offers a comprehensive survey of the native and naturalized wild plants of England, Scotland, and Wales. Useful and delightful...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:480

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Food For Free (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9780007247684

A complete guide to help you safely identify edible species that grow around us, together with detailed artworks, field identification notes and recipes. First published in 1972...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:256

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Food for Free (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9780002201599

Food for Free by Richard Mabey was first published in 1972, since then it has been reprinted 11 times. An all-colour, revised version produced in 1989 has sold over 30...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:192

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Frampton Flora (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9781905204687

Between 1828 and 1851 sisters Elizabeth, Charlotte, Catherine and Mary Anne Clifford and their aunts Charlotte Anne, Catherine Elizabeth and Rosamond accumulated a portfolio of over 300 exquisite watercolours of the wild flowers of Frampton and the surrounding area. The paintings are bold...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:192

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Gilbert White (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9781861978073

When the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White (1720-93) wrote The Natural History of Selborne (1789), he created one of the greatest and most influential natural history works of all time...more details
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Gilbert White: A Biography of the Author of the Natural History of Selborne (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9780813926490

With more than two hundred editions, Gilbert White's "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...more details
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Nature Cure (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9780813926216

Early in "Nature Cure" Richard Mabey returns continually to the swift, who in its spectacular migration may not touch down for well over a year. In Ted Hughes's phrase...more details
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Nature Cure (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9780701176013

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...more details
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Nature Cure (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9780099531821

In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression. For two years, he did little more than lie in bed with his face to a wall. He could neither work nor play. His money ran out. Worst of all...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:240

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New Age Herbalist (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9781856751940

Under the guidance of best-selling author Richard Mabey, a team of experts has created a hugely informative herbal reference. New Age Herbalist covers the use of herbs in the home...more details
Format:paperback  Pages:288

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The Full English Cassoulet: Making Do In the Kitchen (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9780701182533

Richard Mabey began experimenting with cooking as soon as he was big enough to clamber to the cupboard where the powdered chocolate was kept. At Scout camp he learned how to cook a Sussex Pond Pudding in a billy-can...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:256

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The New Age Herbalist: How to Use Herbs for Healing, Nutrition, Body Care, and Relaxation (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9780684815770

We have all grown increasingly aware of the potential -- and documented -- dangers of the chemical toxins that surround us. "The New Age Herbalist" is a compendium of healthy alternatives...more details
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The Perfumier and the Stinkhorn - Six Personal Essays on Natural Science and Romanticism (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9781846684074

In these elegant, short essays, revered nature writer Richard Mabey, attempts to marry a Romantic's view of the natural world with that of the meticulous observations of the scientist. By Romanticism he refers to the view that nature isn't a machine to be dissected...more details
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The Perfumier and the Stinkhorn: Reflections on Natural Science and Romanticism (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9781847654502

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The Unofficial Countryside (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9780956254559

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Weeds - A Cultural History (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9781846680816

A lively and lyrical cultural history of plants in the wrong place by one of Britain's best and most admired nature writers.


Ever since the first human settlements 10...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:336

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Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9780062065452

The true story--and true glories--of the plants we love to hate

From dandelions to crabgrass, stinging nettles to poison ivy, weeds are familiar...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:324

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Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9780062065469

Release Date: 26 June 2012
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Wild Cooking (Book)

Richard Mabey

ISBN:9780099522966

Richard Mabey’s sparky, offbeat book is about canny and inventive making-do, or ‘busking in the kitchen’. Whether creating a cassoulet which uses English ingredients...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:224

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Brush With Nature, A (Book)

Mabey Richard

ISBN:9781846079139

Described as 'Britain's greatest living nature writer', Richard Mabey has revealed his passion for the natural world in eloquent stories for BBC Wildlife Magazine...more details
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Bugs Britannica (Book)

Mabey Richard

ISBN:9780701181802

As with Flora and Birds, Bugs is not a biological guide but a richly-illustrated cultural one, seen through the eyes of writers, musicians, artists and naturalists u from the great Tudor naturalist...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:500

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Food For Free (Book)

Mabey Richard

ISBN:9780007438471

First published in 1972 and still in print today, FOOD FOR FREE is a guide to over 200 types of food that can be gathered, foraged and picked in the wild. Organised by season...more details
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Weeds (Book)

Mabey Richard

ISBN:9781846680762

A lively and lyrical cultural history of plants in the wrong place, by one of Britain's best and most admired nature writers.

Weeds survive...more details
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