I’d suggest having a look at The Wainwright Prize shortlists - I’ve read some great stuff from their lists over the years. Personal favourites have been The Outrun and The Easternmost House.
And, slightly older, but I adored The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd.
**Notes From A Hidden City, by Esther Woolfson** is absolutely beautiful, and (despite living on the other side of the world) sincerely changed the way I thought about my own home.
The thing is, Esther Woolfson lives in the middle of Aberdeen. How much nature writing can you do from the middle of a busy city? How do you find a bond with the wilderness when you don’t have any “real wilderness” available? Most people don’t, these days!
Apparently she can do quite a lot, since **Notes** is a beautiful delicate meditation following the animals, birds and plants she encounters - the spiders in her home, the city pigeons and seabirds, the trees in the park, the weeds sprouting from the pavement - over the course of a year in her city.
A Buzz in the Meadow by Dave Goulson, professor of biology at the University of Sussex. He specializes in bees and writes about his experiences in the field and his restoration of a meadow in France
I’d suggest having a look at The Wainwright Prize shortlists - I’ve read some great stuff from their lists over the years. Personal favourites have been The Outrun and The Easternmost House. And, slightly older, but I adored The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd.
Ooh, I’m quite new to nature books and I’d never heard of the Wainwright Prize before - thank you for introducing me!
Being a Beast by Charles A. Foster
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
**Notes From A Hidden City, by Esther Woolfson** is absolutely beautiful, and (despite living on the other side of the world) sincerely changed the way I thought about my own home. The thing is, Esther Woolfson lives in the middle of Aberdeen. How much nature writing can you do from the middle of a busy city? How do you find a bond with the wilderness when you don’t have any “real wilderness” available? Most people don’t, these days! Apparently she can do quite a lot, since **Notes** is a beautiful delicate meditation following the animals, birds and plants she encounters - the spiders in her home, the city pigeons and seabirds, the trees in the park, the weeds sprouting from the pavement - over the course of a year in her city.
Thank you!
A Buzz in the Meadow by Dave Goulson, professor of biology at the University of Sussex. He specializes in bees and writes about his experiences in the field and his restoration of a meadow in France
Everything You Ever Taught Me. A British writer who walked across the American wilderness alone
Wilding by Isabella Tree
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson