A fascinating portrait of country life across the centuries, as told by the nation's greatest diarists.

This informative and entertaining small volume contains engravings by contemporary artists and a foreword by Prince Charles. Twelve chapters endeavour to capture the atmosphere of successive months, encompassing the minutiae of plant and wildlife behaviour in the garden and hedgerow. The author celebrates the intimacies of a rural world in an idyllic setting, but with an eye to modern existence ..

Capturing the author's turn of phrase and inspired use of language, and infused throughout with the magically meditative tranquillity of Walnut Tree Farm, this book presents an introduction to one of the most important of modern nature writers. It contains descriptions of walks on Mellis Common and thoughts on the importance of nature.

Drawing on the expertise of the National Trust's wardens, conservationists and working farmers, this illustrated book is a comprehensive guide to cultural life and the changing British landscape, including key ancient monuments. It also includes photo-stories of regions through the seasons.

Describes the author's encounters with the owners of country houses - from eccentric lords and oil millionaires to raffish socialists - as he travelled over England saving properties for the National Trust. This title includes the accounts of dinner with Vita Sackville-West at Sissinghurst and Winston Churchill's bedroom at Chartwell.

Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside. This title celebrates this long tradition with various aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).

An illustrated history of the Oxenholme Hounds in Cumbria.

Set in the south of England, this book captures the soft-handed, city-dweller's naivety and wonder both at the workings of nature and the toughness of life on a farm. It contains sections on whatever happens to take the author's fancy and inspire his thoughtful curiosity.

Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside. This title celebrates this long tradition with various aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).

Features photographs of undulating valleys, clear lakes, tarns and rivers and, on the heights, the steep, sharp ridges and peaks, including Scafell Pike, Helvellyn and Skiddaw. These photographs offer a different interpretation of the UK's most recognizable landmarks.

Eric Macleod looks across the loch at the forlorn wreck of his family's croft. 'How would you like to live there?' he asks his wife Ruth, half joking. After all, they have to think of something to do with the place. But he doesn't expect her instant reply - 'I would love to'.

A celebration of the beauties and possibilities of Heliotrope and Honeysuckle, Auricula, Snapdragon, Spanish Iris and Corydalis, and all the other plants that enliven and exalt the gardens of England. It gives good advice on how to make a garden a place of repose and pleasure.

Offers the reader a closer look at the animals and plants of Britain's landscape, following the structure of the series with chapters ranging from Mountains, Lakes, Forests and Seashores to Urban Landscapes. This book paints a beautiful contemporary portrait of Britains wildlife, and features essays on each habitat.

Thousands of barns are scattered among the villages, meadows and pastures of the Yorkshire Dales and make the landscape like no other. Stone structures of great character, they form a monument to immense labour in past centuries. This book takes a look at the barns of the Dales in depth.

From stone-throwing Cornish giants to a haunted Northumberland mine, from the ghostly Mistletoe Bride of Oxfordshire to the 'bloody hand' in a Kent church, this book contains the myths, legends and supernatural stories that have been passed down through the generations all over England.

Covers events from the spread of the railways and flight to the cities, in the early nineteenth century, through to the floods and global warming on the 21st century in the British countryside. This collection shows how the British countryside adapts to what we throw at it, yet still remains our most valuable and beautiful resource.

Offers an illustrated look at life in the British countryside from the Victorian era through to the 1960s. This title helps to explore various aspects of rural life, from the practicalities of growing and rearing food, to the intense hard work required of young and old, the craftsmen, and the industries and markets that buoyed the local economy.

The Countryside Remembered. A photographic collection by John Tarlton - a fascinating and nostalgic tour of the English countryside from the turn of the last century through to the late 1950s.