Richard Mabey is one of our greatest nature writers. He is the author of some thirty books including the bestselling plant bible Flora Britannica, Food for Free, Turned Out Nice Again, Weeds: the Story of Outlaw Plants and Nature Cure which was shortlisted for the Whitbread, Ondaatje and Ackerley Awards. His biography, Gilbert White won the Whitbread Biography Award. A regular commentator on radio and in the national press, he was elected a Fellow in the Royal Society of Literature in 2012. He lives in Norfolk.
21 Ebooks by Richard Mabey
Michelle Benjamin: A Passion for This Earth
David Suzuki’s lifelong work as an environmentalist, naturalist, and scientist have influenced countless others in their fight to save the planet, 20 such devotees of them have contributed to this …
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Richard Mabey: Food for Free
The classic foraging guide to over 200 types of food that can be gathered and picked in the wild, Food for Free returns in its 40th year as a sumptuous, beautifully illustrated and fully updated …
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€4.49
Richard Mabey: Food For Free
The ideal portable companion, the world-renowned Collins Gem series returns with a fresh new look and updated material.This is the perfect pocket guide for aspiring foragers. Over 100 edible plants …
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€10.89
Richard Mabey: Weeds
[A] witty and beguiling meditation on weeds and their wily ways.You will never look at a weed, or flourish a garden fork, in the same way again.Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder In this …
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€7.54
Richard Mabey: Weeds
Ever since the first human settlements 10, 000 years ago, weeds have dogged our footsteps. They are there as the punishment of ‘thorns and thistles’ in Genesis and , two millennia later, as a symbol …
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Richard Mabey: Gilbert White
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, his …
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Richard Mabey: The Cabaret of Plants
In The Cabaret of Plants, Mabey explores the plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief. Picked from eve …
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€10.99
Richard Mabey: The Perfumier and the Stinkhorn
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, …
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Richard Mabey: Turned Out Nice Again
In his trademark style, Richard Mabey weaves together science, art and memoirs (including his own) to show the weather’s impact on our culture and national psyche. He rambles through the myths of Gol …
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€8.49
Gilbert White: Natural History of Selborne
More than any other writer Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years before Darwin, White realised the crucial role of worms in the formation of soil …
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€6.99
Richard Mabey: Dreams of the Good Life
While the
Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, Flora Thompson”s much-loved portrait of life in the English countryside, has inspired a hit television series, relatively little is known about the author …
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Richard Mabey: A Brush With Nature
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. This volume features his favouri …
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Richard Mabey: Nature Cure
‘Britain’s greatest living nature writer’ The Times Rediscover the extraodinary power of nature and the British wilderness, from award-winning naturalist and author Richard Mabey In the last year of …
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Richard Mabey: Fencing Paradise
In this remarkable journal of visits to Eden, Mabey transports his reader from Cornwall to the Mediterranean to the Tropics, from Old World to New, from present to personal memory, to new …
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Richard Mabey: Wild Cooking
Sequel to the cult bestseller Food For Free, Wild Cooking is about making-do and the sheer fun of inventive cooking. Richard Mabey’s sparky, offbeat book is about canny and inventive making-do, or …
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€12.99
Richard Mabey: The Ash and The Beech
From ash die-back to the Great Storm of 1987 to Dutch elm disease, our much-loved woodlands seem to be under constant threat from a procession of natural challenges. Just when we need trees most, to …
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€9.49
Richard Mabey: Turning the Boat for Home
‘One of our greatest nature writers’ Guardian For over fifty years, Richard Mabey has been a pioneering voice in modern nature writing. This book collects pieces across his rich career, tracing his …
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Richard Mabey: The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
‘Highly entertaining…Mabey gets us to look at life from the plants’ point of view.’ —Constance Casey, New York Times
The Cabaret of Plants is a masterful, globe-trotting exploration of the relation …
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€16.99
Jean Giono: Man Who Planted Trees
A book for children from 8 to 80. I love the humanity of this story and how one man s efforts can change the future for so many. It s a real message of hope. Michael Morpurgo Discover this beloved …
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€8.99
Richard Mabey: Food for Free
This fully updated special edition of the classic complete guide to the edible species that grow around us includes a new foreword from the author and a plate section with identification guides for …
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€21.76
Richard Mabey: The Accidental Garden
‘Absolutely enchanting’ ISABELLA TREE We regard gardens as our personal dominions, where we can create whatever worlds we desire. But they are also occupied by myriads of other organisms, all with th …
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€13.99
