A Brush With Nature: 25 years of personal reflections on the natural world

Review by Dick Warner

He’s probably best known for his book Food For Free, about gathering wild foods in the countryside.

His latest book is a selection of the articles he’s been writing for the BBC Wildlife Magazine since 1988. From the outset he had a clear mission statement for what these articles were going to achieve. He believes that there is a great tradition of literary writing about nature in Britain and that in recent times this has degenerated under the pressure from coffee-table books, television documentaries and ‘country diaries’.