{"product_id":"9781784703462","title":"Ground Work : Writings on People and Places","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Dee, Tim, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 07\/03\/2019,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 288 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Vintage,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Vintage Publishing,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Conservation of wildlife \u0026amp; habitats, Natural history, Anthologies (non-poetry)\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781784703462\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eThe essential and defining new collection of the best British nature writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are living in the anthropocene - an epoch where everything is being determined by the activities of just one soft-skinned, warm-blooded, short-lived, pedestrian species. How do we make our way through the ruins that we have made?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis anthology tries to answer this as it explores new and enduring cultural landscapes, in a celebration of local distinctiveness that includes new work from some of our finest writers. We have memories of childhood homes from Adam Thorpe, Marina Warner and Sean O'Brien; we journey with John Burnside to the Arizona desert, with Hugh Brody to the Canadian Arctic; going from Tessa Hadley's hymn to her London garden to caving in the Mendips with Sean Borodale to shell-collecting on a Suffolk beach with Julia Blackburn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHelen Macdonald, in her remarkable piece on growing up in a 50-acre walled estate, reflects on our failed stewardship of the planet: 'I take stock.' she says, 'During this sixth extinction, we who may not have time to do anything else must write now what we can, to take stock.' This is an important, necessary book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35021768360089,"sku":"9781784703462","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781784703462_2862268c-a9d3-4dc9-a42e-2e43ef1365a4.jpg?v=1601396639","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781784703462","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}