{"product_id":"9781849944939","title":"How To See Nature","description":"With a title taken from the 1940 Batsford book, this is nature writing for the modern reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is beautifully lyrical collection of essays on the natural world in Britain by the \u003cem\u003eGuardian's\u003c\/em\u003e country diary writer Paul Evans. It is a book both for those that live in the country and those that don't, but experience nature every day through brownfield edge lands, transport corridors, urban greenspace, industrialised agriculture, suburban expansion, rural development and fragments of ancient countryside. Evans weaves historical, cultural and literary references into his writing, ranging from TS Eliot to Bridget Riley, from Hieronymus Bosch to Napoleon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is divided into the following chapters that help us to understand the wildlife that surround us:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Weedling Wild - wildlife of the wasteland: ragwort, rosebay willowherb, giant hogweed, cinnabar moth, comma butterfly, thistle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGardens of Light - wildlife under moonlight: pipistrelle bats, lacewings, dor beetle, orb-weaver spider.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Flow - tales from the riverbank, estuaries and seas: kingfisher, salmon, minnow, otter, heron.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlight - the majesty of trees and the plights that affect them: ash, lime, oak, elm, azalea, maple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Commons - meadowland with a human footprint: lark, Adonis blue butterfly, horseshoe vetch, rabbit, cattle, skylark, black knapweed, woodcock, six-belted clearwing moth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Garden of Delights - the plants and creatures found just outside: hoverfly, ground elder, mining bee, song thrush, greenfly, jackdaw, peacock butterfly, hedgehog, jay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Greenwood - life beneath the forest canopy: crab apple, tawny owl, robin, lords-and-ladies, stinkhorn, stoat, polecat, buzzard, hawthorn, wren, chiffchaff, fallow deer, speckled wood butterfly, hazel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Returned - wildlife back from exile: raven, red kite, sea eagle, polecat, pine marten, large blue butterfly, great bustard, beaver, otter, wild boar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWild Moors - the creatures that live on the moors and the campaigns to save them: heather, hobby falcon, red grouse, hen harriers, bilberry, wild pony, golden plover, green tiger beetle, stonechat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBestiary - tales of British creatures, from A to Z.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Evans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46896615162005,"sku":"9781849944939","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781849944939_16ca07d0-54f8-400b-b286-5755310136e8.jpg?v=1776888516","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781849944939","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}