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

by Richard Mabey
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781681379906
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: New York Review of Books
  • Publisher Imprint: New York Review of Books
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  • Pages: 160
  • Original Price: USD 17.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 114 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Essays & Narratives

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? Is it an arena for the display of human mastery or might it be something less determined, more generous? These are questions that Richard Mabey, arguably England's greatest nature writer, considers in his new book, The Accidental Garden. 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 still at work. A wise and witty stylist, Mabey locates in his small patch of the planet a place to test assumptions and to observe how myriad species establish common ground.

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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