Book description
In this remarkable journal of visits to Eden, Mabey transports his
reader from Cornwall to the Mediterranean to the Tropics, from Old World
to New, from present to personal memory, to new perspectives on our
collective artistic and emotional past. Sensuous and evocative,
exquisitely written, his new book challenges the reader to look
differently at the world, and our place in the landscape. At the same
time, Mabey is controversial in his views about what we mean by buzz
words like 'renewable', or 'sustainable', and he is highly provocative
in his final response to the Eden Project itself. Richard Mabey was
born and brought up in the Chilterns. He lived there until the late
1990s when he moved to Norfolk where he now lives with his partner,
Polly. He is the author of 13 previous books (see previous books), of
which perhaps the best known are the enduring classics, 'Food for Free'
and 'Flora Britannica' . He writes regularly for the Times, the Guardian
and BBC Wildlife. He is also a regular broadcaster on Radio 4.
