Book Reviews
Field Notes
From The Edge:Journeys Through Britain’s
Secret Wilderness
by Paul Evans
Chapter illustrations
by Maria Nunzia @Varvera
published by Rider Books
Reviews
Nature books round-up: Melancholy, murder and metaphor among the mosses
Field Notes' magic lies partly in the sheer quality of the prose, partly in Evans' ability to loop together disparate threads in a way that feels both natural and carefully patterned: images and words recur, subtle altered each time, layering meaning upon meaning so that each chapter becomes rich with significance. It makes for a profoundly satisfying read.
Melissa Harrison author of 'At Hawthorn Time'
Financial Times Review 6/7 June 2015 Beyond the broken stile
naturalist, BBC radio producer, author of The Running Sky, The Poetry of Birds (with Simon Armitage)and Four Fields
mountaineer, biographer, travel, outdoor and nature writer and author of Travels with the Flea, West, Shipton & Tilman.
Journalist, The Guardian's Environment Editor, author of McLibel:Burger Culture on Trial.
Maggie Gee OBE FRSL
novelist, professor of creative writing, author of The White Family, The Ice People, Virginia Woolf in Manhattan.
literary ecocritic, nature writer,author of Cold Blood
novelist, poet, short-story writer, professor of fiction, author of I’ll Go to Bed at Noon, Nourishment, Vanishing.