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Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A new special edition of the seminal, bestselling book, with a new foreword by the author and a new jacket by the artist Michael Kirkman, to celebrate the author's 80th birthday.

Hardback. New. A new special edition of the seminal, bestselling book, with a new foreword by the author and a new jacket by the artist Michael Kirkman, to celebrate the author's 80th birthday.

Little Toller Books, 2021. Hardcover. New. 248 pages. 8.70x6.50x0.94 inches.

Little Toller Books, 2021. 248, . 222x160mm. HB. NEW. . To celebrate Richard Mabey's 80th birthday, a reissue of the seminal <i>Nature Cure</i>, originally published in 2005 to great acclaim. At the height of his career, having recently published <i>Flora Britannica</i>, the author and naturalist fell in to a deep and all consuming depression. Unable to rise from his bed, his face turned to the wall, Richard Mabey found that the touchstones of his life - his love for nature and the land - could no longer offer him solace. But over time, with help from friends and a move to East Anglia, he slowly recovered, finding a new partner, and a new relationship with landscape. <i>Nature Cure</i>, full of nuance and energy, was a pioneering book in the genre that has since become known as New Nature Writing, and received many plaudits on publication. For this new hardback edition Richard has written a new foreword and Little Toller has commissioned a new jacket by the… Read More

Ford, Pineapple Lane, Dorset: Little Toller Books, 2021. Fine/Fine. 2021 New Edtion, First Printing in d/w not price clipped. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, RICHARD MABEY, on a publisher's label affixed to the title-page. Originally published in 2005, this is a New Edition, First Printing, with a New Foreword published in 2021, Towards the end of the 1990s, at the very height of his career as a naturalist and author, the touchstones of his life - a love for nature and the land - became meaningless and no longer offered him solace. He was in a pit of deep, all-consuming depression. Unable to rise from bed, unable to write, the fascination and passion that nature had inspired in him all of his boyhood and adult life had vanished. Over time, with the help of good friends and a move from the Chiltern Hills to East Anglia, he started to recover an intimacy with the natural world that he feared he had lost forever. He also began writing again, encouraged by his new partner, Polly. . Signed By Author, Richard… Read More