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