Urban Nature Every Day: Discover the natural world on your doorstep
Author: Jane McMorland Hunter
Format: Hardback, 136mm x 192mm, 273g, 256 pages
Published: Batsford, United Kingdom, 2024
365 prompts for noticing nature every day of the year
Arranged in day-by-day format, this beautiful gift book is a celebration of the nature you can find in your city or town, such as urban foxes prowling in your garden, weeds sprouting from a crack in the pavement, butterflies on your balcony and the joys of wandering along a canal path.
Learn how to put up a bug hotel on the 5th January, search for cherry blossom on the 4th April and have a picnic underneath a willow's branches on the 11th June. There are cloud formations to spot, avenues of trees to walk down and elder berries to harvest.
Over the past few years, city-dwellers have all learned to appreciate the nature on their doorsteps, as part of the lasting legacy of lockdown. This timely book is a celebration of the vast variety of wildlife around us, proving that you don't need a trip to the countryside to enjoy the natural world.
Jane McMorland Hunter is a passionate lover of the written word who works at Hatchards bookshop when not writing. She has written and edited several books, including Ode to London, Favourite Poems of England, A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year, Friends: A Poem for Every Day of the Year and A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year. She lives in Fulham, West London. Sally Hughes is a writer and also manages the National Archives bookshop in Kew. She has written books for Prospect Books and contributes regularly to The National Archives blog.
Author: Jane McMorland Hunter
Format: Hardback, 136mm x 192mm, 273g, 256 pages
Published: Batsford, United Kingdom, 2024
365 prompts for noticing nature every day of the year
Arranged in day-by-day format, this beautiful gift book is a celebration of the nature you can find in your city or town, such as urban foxes prowling in your garden, weeds sprouting from a crack in the pavement, butterflies on your balcony and the joys of wandering along a canal path.
Learn how to put up a bug hotel on the 5th January, search for cherry blossom on the 4th April and have a picnic underneath a willow's branches on the 11th June. There are cloud formations to spot, avenues of trees to walk down and elder berries to harvest.
Over the past few years, city-dwellers have all learned to appreciate the nature on their doorsteps, as part of the lasting legacy of lockdown. This timely book is a celebration of the vast variety of wildlife around us, proving that you don't need a trip to the countryside to enjoy the natural world.
Jane McMorland Hunter is a passionate lover of the written word who works at Hatchards bookshop when not writing. She has written and edited several books, including Ode to London, Favourite Poems of England, A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year, Friends: A Poem for Every Day of the Year and A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year. She lives in Fulham, West London. Sally Hughes is a writer and also manages the National Archives bookshop in Kew. She has written books for Prospect Books and contributes regularly to The National Archives blog.