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On Silbury Hill
Silbury Hill in Wiltshire has perplexed people for generations. Was it once an island, moated by water? Was it a place of worship, of ritual, of celebration, perhaps a way of marking the seasons' passing? Along with Stonehenge and nearby Avebury, was it part...- £14.00
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King of Dust : Adventures in Forgotten Sculpture
King of Dust is a craftsman's personal journey through the landscapes of ancient sculpture which first inspired him to pick up tools. From the grandeur of Exeter cathedral to the strangeness of the font at Toller Fratrum in Dorset, this journey through the Romanesque...- £12.00
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Notes from an Island
For thirty summers Tove and her partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietil�, retreated to the tiny island of Klovharun, a rocky outcrop in the gulf of Finland, where they would live, paint and write, energised by the shifting seascapes and the island's austere charms....- £9.99
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The Britannias : And the Islands of Women
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR'A dazzlingly brilliant book' Hannah Dawson'Fascinating, often exhilarating ... Albinia is an intrepid, imaginative guide' TLSThe Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural psyche. From Neolithic...- £12.99
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Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests
Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened by wild woodlands, sacred groves, and fertile orchards. This delightful collection ranges from Ovid to Austen and from Robin...- £12.99
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The Mexican Vegetarian Cookbook : 400 authentic everyday recipes for the home cook
Like the Mexican Joy of Cooking.' - Bon Appetit An essential guide to vibrant, vegetarian Mexican home cooking, including naturally vegan, gluten-free, and dairy-free dishes - with more than 400 authentic everyday recipes for the home cook Vegetarian food is deeply woven into Mexico's...- £39.95
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Unravelling the Silk Road : Travels and Textiles in Central Asia
Three textile roads tangle their way through Central Asia. The famous Silk Road united east and west through trade. Older still was the Wool Road, of critical importance when houses made from wool enabled nomads to traverse the inhospitable winter steppes. Then there was...- £10.99
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The Rough Guide to Rewilding in Britain : 15 Special Places to Reconnect with Nature
The Rough Guide to Rewilding in Britain - the latest picture-packed addition to Rough Guides' Inspirational series - reveals 15 destinations to take travellers across Britain to some of its most beautiful and wild escapes in nature in a brand-new, inspirational coffee-table book. With...- £16.99
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Climbing Days
When Dorothy Pilley first began climbing in the 1910s, female mountaineers were seen as a dangerous liability, their achievements ignored, unrecorded or disbelieved. Undeterred, Dorothy proved herself on the vertiginous slopes of Wales, Scotland and the Lake District before tackling rock faces in the...- £12.99
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Drift : Winner of the Wales Book of the Year
**WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023****WATERSTONES WELSH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**'Truly beautiful and haunting, and an incredible feat of storytelling' DONAL RYAN'A tender, unusual and gorgeously wrought love story' RACHEL JOYCE'In times of war, Lewis finds resilience, redemption and hope...DRIFT...- £9.99
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The Underworld : Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets. ______________________________________________'Masterful and mesmerizing . . . an irresistible mix of splendid scholarship, heart-stopping adventure writing, and vivid, visceral...- £10.99
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Herring : A History of the Silver Darlings
The story of herring is entwined in the history of commercial fishing. For over two millennia, herring has been commercially caught and its importance to the coastal peoples of Britain cannot be measured. At one point tens of thousands were involved in the catching,...- £15.99
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Mountains before Mountaineering : The Call of the Peaks before the Modern Age
Today, mountains are spaces for adventure: treasured places for people to connect with nature, encounter the sublime and challenge themselves, whether it be skiing in the Italian Alps or scaling the heights of the Matterhorn in Switzerland. Some regard our love of mountains as...- £22.00
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The Hard Way : Discovering the Women Who Walked Before Us
The Hard Way is a powerful manifesto for women who long to walk alone - and safely - in the countryside' Dr. Sharon Blackie, author of If Women Rose RootedWhy is it radical for women to walk alone in the countryside, when men have...- £16.99
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Notebook
Sure, sex is great, but have you ever cracked open a new notebook and written something on the first page with a really nice pen?The story behind Notebook starts with a minor crime: the theft of Tom Cox's rucksack from a Bristol pub in...- £9.99
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England's Villages : An Extraordinary Journey Through Time
THE STUNNING NEW BOOK FROM THE HOST OF BBC 2'S VILLAGES BY THE SEAEngland's villages have survived, developed, and thrived over hundreds of years. But what makes a village and how has that changed over time? Take a charming and unexpected journey through the...- £10.99
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Country Matters : A Countryside Companion: 74 tips, tales and talking points
Everything you wanted to know about the countryside, but were too afraid to ask 'A joyful companion with surprises and delights on every page' Tristan Gooley, author of The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs'Highly readable and scrupulously balanced'John Wright, author of The...- £10.99
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The Wordhord : Daily Life in Old English
An entertaining collection of strange, delightful and unexpectedly apt words from the origins of English, which illuminates the lives, beliefs and habits of our linguistic ancestors. 'A marvelous book' Neil Gaiman'Wonderful' - Tom Holland'A lovely, lovely read' - Lucy Mangan'Splendid' - David Crystal'Thorough, entertaining,...- £9.99
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Verdura : 10 Vegetables, 100 Italian Recipes
Cook and eat the Italian way, with 100 fresh, wholesome and delicious vegetarian recipes. World-renowned chef Theo Randall shares his 10 favourite vegetables and reveals the best ways to cook with them through 100 fabulous recipes covering Aubergines, Zucchini, Asparagus, Artichokes, Mushrooms, Broccoli, Tomatoes,...- £28.00
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Late Light : WINNER OF THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING
Late Light brings the refreshing perspective of someone who goes from seeing England as a foreign place to someone who deeply studies its secret wonders. An astonishing read.' - Amy Liptrot, The OutrunThis is a book about falling in love with vanishing thingsLate Light...- £10.99
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Metropolis : A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city. 'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York TimesThe story of the city is the story of civilisation. From Uruk and Babylon to Baghdad and Venice, and on to London,...- £12.99
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I Am An Island : The Sunday Times bestselling memoir of one woman's search for belonging
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Memoir of the year' - Vogue'A wondrous, sensuous memoir of salt-stung survival . . . clear-eyed and poetic prose' Sunday Times'A fascinating memoir' - Daily MailWhen Tamsin Calidas first arrives on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like...- £9.99
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Help the Witch
These stories are a delight' Guardian'Often unnerving, frequently funny and always original, the tangled roots of these haunted stories reach into deep, dark places to unearth an alternative England' Benjamin Myers, author of The Offing 'Everyone should read Help the Witch - funny, odd,...- £12.99
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I Bought a Mountain : The Re-discovered Nature Classic
WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK BARKHAMAnd an essay by Welsh hill farmer, Dafydd Morris-Jones'One of the great no-holds-barred life-adventures in the wilds of the British landscape.' ADAM NICOLSONWritten on the eve of the Second World War, this memoir tells the remarkable story of how...- £10.99
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Our Little Farm : Adventures in Sustainable Living
From Peter Wohlleben, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, and his wife, Miriam, comes an inspired, practical memoir of creating a sustainable homestead amongst the trees. Called "a veritable tree whisperer" by the Wall Street Journal, Peter Wohlleben is...- £17.99
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Tracks on the Ocean : A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel
Ingenious. Caputo picks out a fascinating path and leads readers along it with the confidence of a practised pilot' Felipe Fern�ndez-Armesto, author of 1492'Accessible and entertaining, as well as deeply erudite and constantly mind-expanding' Philip Ball, author of How Life WorksFrom their first appearance...- £30.00
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On The Roof : A Thatcher's Journey
The reed goes on, the reed comes off. The reed rots and returns to the earth. The houses we work on outlast us. The thatch we use has never stood still. On The Roof is a thatcher's tale - a journey of discovery, and...- £18.99
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Ring the Hill
Always engaging, charming, funny and often moving . . . It made me want to pull on my stoutest boots and follow in his footsteps' Stephen Fry'Beautiful, funny, fascinating, impossible-to-categorise . . . Like going on a great ramble with a knowledgeable, witty, engaging...- £9.99
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21st-Century Yokel
Glorious - funny and wry and wise, and utterly its own lawmaker' Robert Macfarlane'A rich, strange, oddly glorious brew' GuardianLonglisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 201821st-Century Yokel is not quite nature writing, not quite a family memoir, not quite a book about...- £10.99
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Where Poppies Blow : The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War
Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writingThe natural history of the Western Front during the First World War'If it weren't for the birds, what a hell it would be.'During the Great War, soldiers lived inside the ground, closer to...- £9.99
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