Generous, moving and alive. A gift Tim Dee, author of GreeneryIntelligent, thoughtprovoking and always, always interesting Cal Flyn, author of Islands of AbandonmentSmyth writes with warmth and engaging perception about our relationship and understanding of the natural world on our doorsteps Jon Dunn, author of The Glitter in the GreenFresh and tender and playful Patrick Galbraith, author of In Search of One Last SongWerent they richer, rock pools, wasnt the seashore busier, when I was a kid?Richard Smyth had always been drawn to the natural world, but when he became a father he found a new joy and a new urgency in showing his kids the everyday wild things around them. As he and his children explore rockpools in Whitley Bay, or the woods and moors near his Yorkshire home, he imagines the world they might inhabit as they grow up. Through different objects discovered on their wanderings a beech leaf, a jay feather, a limpetshell Smyth examines his own past as well as that of the early natural historians, weaving together history, memoir, and environmentalism to form a new kind of nature writing one that asks both what we have lost, and what we have yet to find.

Binding: Paperback;224 pages; Publisher: Icon Books; Classification: BM; Weight: 286 g; Dimensions: 200 x 130 x 15

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