The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness, and the Space in Between by Mabey, Richard

The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness, and the Space in Between (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781681379906)

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The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness, and the Space in Between by Mabey, Richard

The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness, and the Space in Between

$17.95
The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness, and the Space in Between by Mabey, Richard

The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness, and the Space in Between

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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One of Britain's greatest nature writers blends horticulture with philosophy in this intimate memoir about gardening, rewilding, and a path forward amid climate change.

What is a garden? Must it be an arena for the display of human mastery or might it be something less determined, more generous, a handshake with nature rather than a clenched fist? These are questions that Richard Mabey, arguably England's greatest nature writer, asks and considers in his new book, part memoir, part treatise.

From the pressing surrounds of the inventive, half-wild garden that Mabey, an instinctive rewilder, and his partner Polly, a determined grower, have shared for two decades, Mabey weighs past hopes and visions against the environmental emergency of the present. In beeches and bush crickets he sees proof of adaptation and survival; in commons and meadows he finds natural processes at work yet.

A wise and witty stylist, under no illusions but attuned to delight, Mabey locates in his small patch of planet a place to test assumptions, to inhabit other species' sensoriums, to observe how myriad species establish common ground. "Be interpreters, scribes, witnesses, neighbors," urges Mabey, "the welcomers at the gate."

Author: Richard Mabey
ISBN-10: 1681379902
ISBN-13: 9781681379906
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2025
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
By Richard Mabey
By Richard Mabey
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Richard Mabey is the author of over forty pioneering and prize-winning books on the relationships between nature and culture, including Food for Free, Flora Britannica, The Unofficial Countryside, Whistling in the Dark: In Pursuit of the Nightingale, and The Cabaret of Plants. His biography of Gilbert White won the Whitbread Biography Prize. Active in conservation, he has sat on advisory councils to the British government and is a regular contributor to the British press and BBC radio and television. He was awarded a Civil List Pension for services to literature and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives with his partner Polly in Norfolk, where they explore the county's wetlands in their electric boat.

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