'Britain's greatest living nature writer' (The Times) describes how he conquered clinical depression through his re-awakened love of nature.
Richard Mabey is the father of modern nature writing in the UK.
Since 1972 he has written some forty influential books, including
the prize-winning Nature Cure, Gilbert White- a Biography, and
Flora Britannica. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
and Vice-President of the Open Spaces Society.
He spent the first half of his life amongst the Chiltern
beechwoods, and now lives in Norfolk in a house surrounded by ash
trees.
A brilliant, candid and heartfelt memoir...The account of how he
broke free of depression, reshaped his life and reconnected with
the wild becomes nothing short of a manifesto for living...Mabey's
particular vision, informed by a lifetime's reading and
observation, is ultimately optimistic. It is also what makes his
voice so appealing amid all the froth and flam of the
eco-debate
*Sunday Times*
A book of which only he could have written a single
page...marvellously observed, deeply felt from sentence to
sentence. The writing is exquisite
*Evening Standard*
Subtle, devotional, poetic
*Observer*
Rich, invigorating and deeply restorative
*Irish Times*
Nature Cure moves between the nervous breakdown of an individual
and the madness of the modern world with a prescience akin to that
of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
*Guardian*
Mabey is a radical, inheritor of an old English tradition...The
core of the book is his exploration of his new landscape. It feels
a privilege to share it, watching him unpick the layers of watery
Norfolk, with dazzling skill and the warmest of hearts, as his
troubled mind heals
*Independent*
Written in the radiant, tingle-making prose that has earned Mabey
literary prizes and a multitude of fans... both a wake-up call and
an example of how the love of nature can electrify and heal the
imagination.
*Daily Mail*
An inspiring book
*Sunday Telegraph*
Britain's greatest living nature writer
*The Times*
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