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1	The New Age Herbalist: How to Use Herbs for Healing, Nutrition, Body Care, and Relaxation more books like this by Richard Mabey, Michael McIntyre add to wishlist The most complete, most authoritative, most lavishly illustrated compendium of herbs available today. Offers a comprehensive, illustrated glossary of over 200 herbs and is supplemented with chapters on healing, body care, nutrition, and gardening. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.72! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Frampton Flora more books like this by Richard Mabey add to wishlist "The Frampton Flora" documents a beautiful collection of Victorian botanical paintings discovered in the attic of Frampton Court in Gloucestershire over a century after they were created. First published over twenty years ago, this revised, redesigned and updated edition of a classic bestseller includes new paintings that have come to light since ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Food for Free more books like this by Richard Mabey add to wishlist Food for Free by Richard Mabey was first published in 1972, since then it has been reprinted 11 times. An all-colour, revised version produced in 1989 has sold over 30,000 copies in the trade. A guide to over 300 types of food that can be gathered in the wild in Britain, Food for Free explores the history and folklore of the foods as well as ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $13.99!
4	Flora Britannica more books like this by Richard Mabey add to wishlist Illustrated throughout in colour, this is a concise edition of Flora Britannica. It is organised thematically, rather than botanically and includes the personal anecdotes, observations and regional knowledge of people from all over Britain. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $12.63! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Low-Water No-Water Garden: Gardening for Drought and Heat the Mediterranean Way more books like this by Pattie Barron, Simon McBride (Photographer), Richard Mabey (Foreword by) add to wishlist Using the native Mediterranean garden as a model, Pattie Barron shows how gardening in today's ever hotter and drier conditions need not be a barrier to enjoyment, success and creativity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.45!
6	Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees more books like this by Richard Mabey add to wishlist Beech trees reached Britain about 8,000 years ago, and they were workhorses, not ornaments - fuel for Rome's glassworks; firewood for London; oars for the ships of Venice; raw material for furniture, cut and turned by 'bodgers' who lived like nomads among the trees in huts made of beechwood shavings. Mabey covers Europe as well as Britain, and ... see all copies from $10.98! new only from $10.98! \| first editions
7	Nature Cure more books like this by Richard Mabey add to wishlist In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression. For two years, he did little more than lie in bed with his face to a wall. He could neither work nor play. His money ran out. Worst of all, the natural world - which since childhood had been a source of joy and inspiration for ... see all copies from $4.74! new only from $9.43! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The flowers of May. more books like this by Caroline May, Richard Mabey add to wishlist Born before Waterloo, and working into the late Victorian period, Caroline May spent nearly half a century painting the wild flowers of Britain. The daughter and sister of country parsons, she lived in Hampshire, Surrey and Cornwall, but travelled all over Britain in search of plants to record in watercolour. Nearly a thousand of her paintings ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
9	A Nature Journal more books like this by Richard Mabey add to wishlist This journal portrays a country year, not as a calendar of flowerings and perennial rituals, but as an artist's impression, recording private special occasions and reflections prompted by a favourite scene or unexpected sight. Culled from two decades of diary notes, these entries evoke the natural year from the Scottish Highlands to the Cornish ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $34.36! \| first editions
10	Home Country more books like this by Richard Mabey add to wishlist From childhood dens in the grounds of a derelict mansion, through explorations of the wild, bird-haunted fringes of the north Norfolk coast, and the final rediscovery of his roots in the Chiltern woodlands, this book traces the growth of Richard Mabey's view of nature. Yet the book is more than a series of autobiographical episodes, for it ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.40! \| first editions
11	Fencing Paradise: Reflections on the Myths of Eden by Richard Mabey add to wishlist At the Eden Project 'Nature' is not as elsewhere - it is as once an actual garden and an imitation of Nature in a place that was recently derelict and sterile. Sitting in Eden's Blomes, Richard Mabey finds himself pondering the myth of the original garden of Eden - and this leads him to explore the range of stories humans have woven about plants ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Gilbert White: A Biography of the Author of the Natural History of Selborne more books like this by Richard Mabey add to wishlist With more than two hundred editions, Gilbert White's "The Natural History of Selborne" is one of the most published books in the English language. An environmental study of the eighteenth-century Hampshire parish where White was born and later served as curate, the book is distinguished by the author's meticulous observations of plant and animal ... see all copies from $5.01! new only from $12.19! \| SVS
13	Flowering of Britain more books like this by Richard Mabey, Tony Evans add to wishlist This illustrated book is a celebration of the wild flowers of Britain and the part they have played in British culture for 8000 years. The author investigates the history, legends and distribution of some of Britain's best-known flowers. Richard Mabey has also written "The Common Ground", "Food For Free" and "The Unofficial Countryside". Freelance ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
14	Flora Britannica Book of Spring Flowers more books like this by Richard Mabey add to wishlist Derived from the author's "Flora Britannica", this book focuses on over 50 wild spring flowers of England, Scotland and Wales. As well as describing them, the author gives an account of the role of spring flowers in social life, arts, custom and landscape. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $10.33! \| first editions
15	In search of food : traditional eating & drinking in Britain more books like this by David Mabey, Richard Mabey add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! new only from $75.74! \| first editions
16 view cover	Country Matters more books like this by Richard Mabey add to wishlist An outstanding natural history writer..."Selected Writings" is a treasure, even for his admirers who have been reading him for years. 'Honest, perceptive, informed and humble before the history nature represents, Mabey is a gentle wonder, and so is his book' Eileen Battersby - "Irish Times". Richard Mabey is one of our most gifted and evocative ... see all copies from $45.80!
17 view cover	The Oxford Book of Nature Writing more books like this by Richard Mabey (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology of nature writing from Europe and America covers 2000 years from the imaginative Medieval bestiaries to the scientific precision of modern writers. It includes the work of amateur and professional natural historians and culminates in modern concern for the environment and ecological issues. This book is intended for anyone ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $50.79! \| first editions
18 view cover	Collins Gem Food for Free more books like this by Richard Mabey add to wishlist Fans of Food for Free will be delighted at this new format -- ideal for carrying in a rucksack. Over 100 edible plants are featured together with recipes and other interesting culinary information. With details on how to pick, when to pick and regulations on picking. This new format of a best-selling title provides a portable guide for all those ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $3.99!
19	Children in primary school: the learning experience. - more books like this by Richard Mabey add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
20	The Flowers of Kew: 350 Years of Flower Paintings from the Royal Botanic Gardens more books like this by Richard Mabey add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! first editions
21	Landlocked. more books like this by Richard Mabey add to wishlist In this collection, Mabey challenges the conventional heritage notion and trails the idea of wilderness through quirky observations on natural history, commentaries on environmental art, and the continuing debate about the quality of our landscapes. see all copies from $7.63! new only from $42.65! \| first editions
22 view cover	The Unofficial Countryside more books like this by Richard Mabey add to wishlist A new edition of this book, originally published by Collins in 1973, in which Mabey reveals the rich world of animal and plant life surviving and often thriving among docklands, railways, factories and canals. From orchids growing in abandoned cars to kestrels over Kensington, this is Britain's unofficial countryside. see all copies from $6.51! first editions
23	Plants with a purpose : a guide to the everyday uses of wild plants more books like this by Richard Mabey add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53!
24	A Victorian Flora more books like this by Richard Mabey, Caroline May add to wishlist see all copies from $12.60! first editions
25	Plantcraft: A Guide to the Everyday Use of Wild Plants more books like this by Richard Mabey add to wishlist see all copies from $2.24!

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