The English Love Affair with Nature
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1. SMITTEN – 2. VIRGIN – 3. IN LOVE – 4. TAKING STOCK
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Introduction
Allen, David Elliston. The Naturalist in Britain, a Social History. Princeton, 2nd edition, 1994. First published by Allen Lane, 1976.
da Mosto, Francesco. Why do the British Love Wildlife? BBC Radio 4, 8 January 2008.
Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jane. The Garden, An English Love Affair: One Thousand Years of Gardening. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002.
Mabey, Richard. Gilbert White: A biography of the author of The Natural History of Selborne. Century Hutchinson, 1986.
Mullins, Edwin. Love Affair with Nature: A Personal View of British Art. Phaidon, 1986.
Strunk, William. The Elements of Style. Filiquarian Publishing, 2007. (First published 1920)
Uglow, Jenny. Nature’s Engraver. A life of Thomas Bewick. Faber & Faber, 2006.
1. SMITTEN
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1.1 Cupid’s Arrows
Bewick, Thomas. A History of British Birds. Beilby and Bewick. Volume 1, Land Birds, 1797; Volume 2, Water Birds, 1804.
Bewick, Thomas. A General History of Quadrupeds: the figures engraved on wood. S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, and T. Bewick, 1790.
Bewick, Thomas. A Memoir of Thomas Bewick, Written by Himself. Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862.
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Smith, Elder, 1847.
Carlyle, Thomas. Letter to J. P. Eckermann, 2 August 1848.
Dixon, Hugh. Thomas Bewick and the North-Eastern Landscape, in Faulkner, Berry, and Gregory. Northern Landscapes: Representations and Realities of North-East England. Boydell and Brewer, 2010.
Mabey, Richard. Gilbert White: A biography of the author of The Natural History of Selborne. Century Hutchinson, 1986.
Menely, Tobias. Traveling in Place: Gilbert White’s Cosmopolitan Parochialism. In Eighteenth-Century Life, Duke University Press, 2004.
Rayner, John. A Selection of Engravings on Wood by Thomas Bewick. Penguin, 1947.
Uglow, Jenny. Nature’s Engraver. A life of Thomas Bewick. Faber & Faber, 2006.
White, Gilbert. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. Benjamin White, 1789.
2. VIRGIN
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2.1 Origins
Aristotle. The Works of Aristotle. Volume IV: Historia Animalium. Translated by D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Oxford, 1910.
Barney, Stephen et al. (translators). The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Bragg, Melvyn, with Jonathan Bate, Roger Scruton and Karen Edwards. The Idea of ‘Nature’. In Our Time, BBC Radio 4. 10 July 2003.
Collingwood, Robin George. The Idea of Nature. Oxford Paperbacks, 1965. First published 1945.
Osbaldeston, Tess Anne. Dioscorides (De Materia Medica). Ibidis Press, 2000.
Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection. Translated by John Healy. Penguin, 1991.
Pliny the Elder. The Natural History. Translated by John Bostock and H. T. Riley, 1855.
Stevens, Peter S. Patterns in Nature. Peregrine Books, 1976. First published 1974.
Williams, Raymond. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Flamingo, 1983. ‘Nature’, pages 219-224.
2.2 Mediaeval to Early Modern
Armstrong, Patrick. The English Parson-Naturalist. Gracewing, 2000.
Boas, Marie. The Rise of Modern Science. Volume 1: The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630. Fontana Science, 1970.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Parliament of Fowls. Manuscript, c. 1382. Printed by William Caxton, 1478.
Dodoens, Rembert. Stirpium historiae pemptades sex. Christopher Plantin, 1583.
Gerard, John. Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, 1597.
Harkness, Deborah E. The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution. Yale University Press, 2007.
Herrick, Robert. Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq. Printed for John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, 1648.
Jones, Whitney R. D. William Turner: Naturalist, Physician, and Divine. Routledge, 1988.
Lewis, C. S. The Discarded Image. An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1964.
Lewis, Suzanne. The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora. University of California Press, 1987.
Thomas, Keith. Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England, 1500-1800. Viking, 1983.
Turner, William. Avium Praecipuarum quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, brevis & succincta historia. 1544.
Turner, William. The first and seconde partes of the herbal… Arnold Birckman, Cologne, 1568.
2.3 Religion
Armstrong, Patrick. The English Parson-Naturalist. Gracewing, 2000.
Barlow, Nora. The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, Collins, 1958.
Buckland, William. Reliquiae Diluvianae: Or, Observations on the Organic Remains Contained in Caves, Fissures and Diluvial Gravel, and on Other Geological Phenomena, Attesting to the Action of a Universal Deluge. John Murray, 1823a.
Buckland, William. Vindiciæ Geologiæ; or the Connexion of Geology with Religion explained. 1823b.
Buckland, William. Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology. (2 volumes) Bridgewater Treatises, 1836.
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim. Penguin, 1986. First published 1900.
Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. John Murray, 1859.
Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design. W. W. Norton, 1987.
Derham, William. Physico-theology, Or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from his Works of Creation. W. Innys, 1713.
Gould, Stephen Jay. Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History. Vintage, 2007. First published 1993.
Jenyns, Leonard. Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow. John Van Voorst, 1862.
Juniper, Tony. What Has Nature Ever Done For Us? Profile Books, 2013.
Malthus, Thomas. An Essay on the Principle of Population. J. Johnson, 1798.
Paley, William. Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity. 12th edition, 1809.
Ray, John. The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. William Innys, 1691.
Re Manning, Russell (editor). The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Willughby, Francis and John Ray. Ornithologiae Libri Tres. John Martyn, London, 1676.
Willughby, Francis and John Ray. The Ornithology of Francis Willughby. John Martyn, London, 1678.
Woodforde, James. The Diary of a Country Parson 1758-1824. Edited by John Beresford. Oxford University Press, 1949.
2.4 Newton’s Universe
Apian, Peter. Cosmographia. 1524.
Boas, Marie. The Rise of Modern Science. Volume 1: The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630. Fontana Science, 1970.
Copernicus, Nicolaus. De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium. 1543.
Galilei, Galileo. Sidereus Nuncius. 1610.
Hall, A. Rupert. The Rise of Modern Science. Volume 2: From Galileo to Newton 1630-1720. Collins, 1963.
Kepler, Johannes. Astronomia Nova, seu physica coelestis, tradita commentariis de motibus stellae martis. 1609.
Kepler, Johannes. Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae. 1617-1621.
Newton, Isaac. Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. 1687.
Porter, Roy. Enlightenment. Penguin, 2000.
Stephenson, Bruce. Kepler’s Physical Astronomy. Princeton University Press, 1994.
2.5 Collecting for Pleasure
Allen, David Elliston. The Naturalist in Britain, a Social History, Princeton, 2nd edition, 1994. First published by Allen Lane, 1976.
DeLoach, Charles. Giants: A Reference Guide from History, the Bible, and Recorded Legend. Scarecrow Press, 1995.
Ford, E. B. Butterflies. New Naturalist series. Collins, 1977. First published 1945.
Huxley, Robert. The Great Naturalists. Thames & Hudson, 2007.
Imperato, Ferrante. Dell’Historia Naturale di Ferrante Imperato Libri XXVIII, Naples: Nella stamparia à Porta Reale per Costantino Vitale, 1599.
Impey, Oliver and Arthur MacGregor, The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe, British Museum, 2001.
Mauriès, Patrick. Cabinets of Curiosities. Thames and Hudson, 2011.
Merrett, Christopher. Pinax rerum Naturalium Britannicarum, continens Vegetabilia, Animalia et Fossilia, in hac Insula reperta Inchoatus. Cave Pulleyn, 1666.
Moore, Wendy. The Knife Man: Blood, Body-Snatching and the Birth of Modern Surgery. Bantam, 2006. First published 2005.
Mountain, Fiona. Lady of the Butterflies. Putnam, 2009. (novel about Eleanor Glanville)
Petiver, James. Gazophylacium naturae et artis. Christopher Bateman, 1702-1706.
Sloane, Sir Hans. A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbadoes, Nieves, St Christophers, and Jamaica; with the Natural History of the Herbs and Trees, Four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles, &c. Of the last of those Islands. Printed for the author, 1725.
2.6 From the Sublime to the Romantic
Adams, William M. Against Extinction: The Story of Conservation. Earthscan, 2004.
Boileau, Nicolas. Le Traité du Sublime. Translation of Longinus (1st-3rd century AD). D. Thierry, 1674. (parallel text, Greek and French)
Bragg, Melvyn, with Jonathan Bate, Roger Scruton and Karen Edwards. The Idea of ‘Nature’. In Our Time, BBC Radio 4. 10 July 2003.
Burke, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of the Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. R. & J. Dodsley, 1757. Edited with an Introduction by James T. Boulton, Routledge Classics, 2008.
Byron, Lord George Gordon. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth. John Murray, 1818.
Cobbett, William. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, …, The Political Register, 1830. (First serialised 1822-1826.)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, and William Wordsworth. Lyrical Ballads, J. & A. Arch, 1798.
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim. Penguin, 1986. First published 1900.
Evelyn, John. Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty’s Dominions. John Martyn for the Royal Society, 1664.
Gilpin, William. Dialogue upon the gardens of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham, at Stow in Buckinghamshire. B. Seeley, 1748.
Gilpin, William. Observations on the River Wye and several parts of South Wales, etc. relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the summer of the year 1770. R. Blamire, 1789.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan: or, The Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil. Johannes Blaev, 1651.
Hoskins, William George. The Making of the English Landscape. Pelican, 1970. First published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1955.
Kelly, Michael. Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Oxford University Press, 1998.
Longinus. On the Sublime. 1st-3rd Century AD. Chapter 1, section 4.
Lovejoy, Arthur O. “Nature” as Aesthetic Norm (JSTOR). Modern Language Notes, November 1927. Volume 42, Issue 7, Pages 444-450.
Lovejoy, Arthur O. The Supposed Primitivism of Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality (JSTOR). November 1923. Modern Philology, Volume 21, Number 2, Pages 165-186.
Macfarlane, Robert. Mountains of the Mind. Granta, 2003.
Porter, Roy. Enlightenment. Penguin, 2000.
Raban, Jonathan. The Oxford Book of the Sea. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du Contract Social; ou, Principes du Droit Politique. Marc Michel Rey, 1762.
Schama, Simon. Landscape and Memory. HarperCollins, 1995.
2.7 Industrial Revolution
Grace’s Guide. Thwaites and Carbutt.
Pitts, Marianne. How are the mighty fallen: Bolckow Vaughan Co. Ltd. 1864–1929.
Pryor, Francis. The Making of the British Landscape. Penguin, 2011. First published by Allen Lane, 2010.
3. IN LOVE
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3.1 Escape into a Good Book
Allen, David Elliston. The Naturalist in Britain, a Social History, Princeton, 2nd edition, 1994. First published by Allen Lane, 1976.
Clare, John. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery. Taylor and Hessey, 1820.
Collis, John Stewart. The Worm Forgives the Plough. Vintage Classics, 2009. First published as While Following the Plough (1946) and Down to Earth (1947).
Deakin, Roger. Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees. Penguin, 2008. First published by Hamish Hamilton, 2007.
Deakin, Roger. Notes from Walnut Tree Farm. Penguin, 2009. First published by Hamish Hamilton, 2008.
Eliot, T. S. A Choice of Kipling’s Verse. Faber and Faber, 1941.
Griffiths, Jay. Wild: An Elemental Journey. Penguin, 2008. First published by Tarcher, 2006.
Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented. James R. Osgood, McIlvaine, 1891.
Jefferies, Richard. The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life. Smith, Elder, 1878.
Jefferies, Richard, with introduction by Richard Mabey. Landscape with Figures: Selected Prose Writings. Penguin, 2013.
Mayle, Peter. A Year in Provence. Pan, 1990. First published by Hamish Hamilton, 1989.
Morris, William, The Well at the World’s End, Pan/Ballantine, 1971.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. 3: The Return of the King. George Allen and Unwin, 1954. Chapter 8: The Scouring of the Shire.
3.2 Art
Albin, Eleazar. A Natural History of English Insects, Illustrated with A Hundred Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from the Life: And (for those who desire it) Exactly Coloured by the Author. William and John Innys, 1720.
Brebbia, C.A., C. Greated and M.V. Collins. Colour in Art, Design & Nature. WIT Press, 2011.
Egerton, Judy. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire. Making and Meaning series. National Gallery, 1995.
Fisher, Celia. The Golden Age of Flowers: Botanical Illustration in the Age of Discovery 1600-1800. British Library, 2013.
Land2. Gail Dickerson. University of Leeds ,2014.
Lewin, Angie, with text by Leslie Geddes Brown. Angie Lewin: Plants and Places. Merrell, 2010.
Lister, Raymond. British Romantic Painting. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Mullins, Edwin. Love Affair with Nature: A Personal View of British Art. Phaidon, 1986.
Salmon, Michael A., Peter Marren and Basil Harley. The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and Their Collectors. University of California Press, 2000.
Sloman, Susan. Gainsborough’s Landscapes: Themes and Variations. Philip Wilson, 2011.
Wood, John Clairmont. Dictionary of British Animal Painters. F. Lewis, 1973.
3.3 Geology
Allen, David Elliston. The Naturalist in Britain, a Social History, Princeton, 2nd edition, 1994. First published by Allen Lane, 1976.
Armstrong, Patrick. The English Parson-Naturalist. Gracewing, 2000.
British Museum (Natural History). British Palaeozoic Fossils, 4th Edition. British Mesozoic Fossils, Fifth Edition. British Caenozoic Fossils, Fifth Edition. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), 1975.
Collinson, Margaret. Fossil Plants of the London Clay. The Palaeontological Association, 1983.
Dean, Dennis R. James Hutton and the History of Geology. Cornell University Press, 1992.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
Emling, Shelley. The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman whose Discoveries Changed the World, Palgrove Macmillan, 2009.
Hutton, James. Theory of the Earth; or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. I, Part II, pp. 209–304, 1788.
Kemp, D. J. Fossil Sharks, Rays & Chimaeroids of the English Tertiary Period. Gosport Museum, 1982.
Lyell, Charles. Principles of Geology: being an inquiry how far the former changes of the Earth’s surface are referable to causes now in operation. John Murray, 1830-1833. 5th Edition, 1837.
Mantell, Gideon. The wonders of geology, or, A familiar exposition of geological phenomena: being the substance of a course of lectures delivered at Brighton. Relfe and Fletcher, 1838.
McCarthy, Steve and Mick Gilbert. The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs. Crystal Palace Foundation, 1994.
Morton, Edward. Dinosaurs at Crystal Palace Park. Institute of Historic Building Conservation, Context 75, July 2002.
Playfair, John. Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. Cadell and Davies (London) and William Creech (Edinburgh), 1802.
Playfair, John. Biographical Account of the late James Hutton, M.D., in The Works of John Playfair, Esq. Constable, 1822. Volume 4, Pages 33-118.
Plot, Robert. The Natural History of Oxfordshire. At the theater in Oxford, and in London at Mr. S. Millers, at the Star near the West-end of St. Pauls Church-yard, 1677.
Rudwick, Martin. Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform. University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Smith, George. Stephen Hislop: Pioneer Missionary & Naturalist in Central India. John Murray, 1888.
Smith, William. A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales. With Part of Scotland. (hand-tinted map) John Cary, 1815. University of New Hampshire Earth Sciences. (15 map sheets in full colour)
Wood, Robert Muir. On the Rocks: A Geology of Britain. BBC, 1978. (book with gazetteer)
3.4 Explorers
Bates, Henry Walter. The Naturalist on the River Amazons, A Record of the Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature under the Equator, during Eleven Years of Travel. John Murray, 1863.
Darwin, Charles. Voyage of the Beagle. Penguin Classics, 1989. First published by John Murray, 1839.
Morris, Francis Orpen. A History of British Butterflies. Groombridge, 1852.
Scherren, Henry. Popular Natural History. Cassell, 1906.
Wallace, Alfred Russel. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. Macmillan, 1869.
3.5 Collecting for Science
Blunt, Wilfrid. The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus. Collins, 1971.
Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. John Murray, 1871.
3.6 Pets
Diski, Jenny. What I Don’t Know About Animals. Virago, 2012. First published 2010.
RSPCA. The welfare state: five years measuring animal welfare in the UK 2005–2009.
Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty. His Grooms and Companions. The autobiography of a Horse. Translated from the original Equine by Anna Sewell. Jarrold, 1877.
Smith, Dodie. The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Heinemann, 1956.
Taylor, Joseph. The General Character Of The Dog: Illustrated by a variety of original and interesting anecdotes of that beautiful and useful animal, in prose and verse. Darton and Harvey, 1804.
Thomas, Keith. Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England, 1500-1800. Viking, 1983.
3.7 Cruelty
Lind af Hageby, Lizzy and Leisa Katherina Schartau. The Shambles of Science: Extracts from the Diary of Two Students of Physiology… Nabu Press, 2012. First published by Ernest Bell, 1903.
Mason, Peter. The Brown Dog Affair. Two Sevens Publishing, 1997.
Moore, Wendy. The Knife Man: Blood, Body-Snatching and the Birth of Modern Surgery. Bantam, 2006. First published 2005.
Phillips, Peter. Humanity Dick: The Eccentric Member for Galway. Parapress, 2003.
Thomas, Keith. Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England, 1500-1800. Viking, 1983.
3.8 Hunting
The Deer Initiative.
Emma Griffin. Blood Sport: Hunting in Britain Since 1066. Yale University Press, 2008.
3.9 Conservation
Adams, William M. Against Extinction: The Story of Conservation. Earthscan, 2004.
Allen, David Elliston. The Naturalist in Britain, a Social History, Princeton, 2nd edition, 1994. First published by Allen Lane, 1976.
BBC. The Land. Episode 4 of Britain From Above. Commentary by Andrew Marr. Produced by Nic Young. First broadcast on BBC Two, 17 August 2008. A sample of the Luftwaffe reconnaissance images of Britain can be seen at http://www.hitlersukpictures.co.uk/. A separate database, the Aerofilms collection of aerial photographs of Britain, taken between 1919 and 1953, is at http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/
Goulson, Dave. A Sting in the Tale. Jonathan Cape, 2013.
Hill, Olivia. Our Common Land (and other short essays), Macmillan, 1877.
Hoskins, William George. The Making of the English Landscape. Pelican, 1970. First published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1955.
Jones, Samuel (editor). The Enduring Relevance of Octavia Hill. Collection 34, Demos, 2012.
Monbiot, George. Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea, and Human Life. Penguin, 2014. First published by Allen Lane, 2013.
Sands, Tim. Wildlife in Trust: a hundred years of nature conservation. The Wildlife Trusts, 2012.
Taylor, Judy, Joyce Irene Whalley, Anne Stevenson Hobbs and Elizabeth M. Battrick. Beatrix Potter 1866-1943. The Artist and Her World. Frederick Warne with The National Trust, 1987.
Warwick, Hugh. The Beauty in the Beast: Britain’s Favourite Creatures and the People Who Love Them. Simon & Schuster, 2012.
White Horse Alliance, The. The White Horse wins the day: How a campaign for landscape, wildlife and sustainable transport defeated the Westbury eastern bypass 1998 – 2009.
3.10 Birding
Allen, David Elliston. The Naturalist in Britain, a Social History, Princeton, 2nd edition, 1994. First published by Allen Lane, 1976.
Barnes, Simon. How to be a Bad Birdwatcher. Short Books, 2004.
Coward, Thomas Alfred. The Birds of the British Isles and their Eggs. Frederick Warne, 1920.
Grey, Edward. The Charm of Birds. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1927.
Grey, Edward and Dorothy Grey. The Cottage Book. The Undiscovered Country Diary of an Edwardian Statesman. Edited by Michael Waterhouse. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001.
Harrap, Simon and Nigel Redman. Where to Watch Birds in Britain. Christopher Helm, 2nd edition 2010.
Johns, Jeremy Rowett. Doctor by Nature: Jonathan Couch, Surgeon of Polperro. Polperro Heritage Press, 2010.
Lack, David. Darwin‘s Finches. Cambridge University Press, 1947.
Lindo, David. An introduction to birding in the city. The Guardian, 19 May 2012.
Lockley, Ronald. Shearwaters. J.M. Dent, 1942.
McGrath, Rory. Bearded Tit. Ebury Press, 2008.
Moss, Stephen. A Bird in the Bush. A Social History of Birdwatching. Aurum, 2005.
Nelder, J. A. A statistical examination of the Hastings Rarities. British Birds, August 1962. Volume 55. Pages 283-298.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Frederick Warne, 1902.
3.11 Angling
Brookes, Richard. The Art of Angling, Rock and Sea Fishing: with the Natural History of River, Pond & Sea Fish. John Watts, 1740.
Halford, Frederic M. Floating Flies and How to Dress Them. Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886.
Hawker, Peter. Instructions to Young Sportsmen. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844.
Skues, G. E. M. Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream. A & C Black, 1910.
Skues, G. E. M. The Way of a Trout with the Fly: and some further studies in minor tactics. A & C Black, 1921.
Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation: Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing not unworthy the perusal of most anglers. Richard Marriot, 1653. Fifth edition 1676.
3.12 Gardening
Don, Monty and Sarah Don. The Jewel Garden. Hodder & Stoughton, 2004.
Elliott, Brent. The Royal Horticultural Society, A History 1804-2004. Phillimore, 2004.
Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jane. The Garden, An English Love Affair: One Thousand Years of Gardening. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002.
The Hall and Duck Trust. History of the Lawnmower (4 parts).
Jekyll, Gertrude. Colour Schemes For The Flower Garden. Country Life, 1908.
Jekyll, Gertrude (text); George S. Elgood (drawings). Some English Gardens. Longmans, Green, 1904.
Sackville-West, Vita and Sarah Raven. Vita Sackville West’s Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden. Virago, 2014.
St. Anns Allotments.
Titchmarsh, Alan. My Secret Garden. BBC Books, 2012.
3.13 Health
Allen, David Elliston. The Naturalist in Britain, a Social History, Princeton, 2nd edition, 1994. First published by Allen Lane, 1976.
Anon. British Balneological and Climatological Society. British Medical Journal, January 11 1896. 1(1828). Pages 107-108.
Bradley, Peter. Out of the Blue: A Celebration of Brockwell Park Lido, 1937-2007. BLU, 2007.
Deakin, Roger. Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain. Vintage, 2000. First published by Chatto and Windus, 1999.
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (1851-1913), website with history and photographs.
Evans, R. Brian. Scrambles in the Lake District. Cicerone Press, 1982.
Graham, Stephen. The Gentle Art of Tramping. (Extracts) New York: D. Appleton, 1926.
Hall, Richard W. The Art of Mountain Tramping. Practical Hints for both Walker and Scrambler among the British Peaks. Witherby, 1932.
Langmuir, Eric. Mountain Leadership: The official handbook of the Mountain Leadership Training Boards of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Scottish Sports Council, Second Edition, 1973. First published 1969.
Laqueur, Walter. Young Germany: A History of the German Youth Movement. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962.
Merta, Sabine. Wege und Irrwege zum modernen Schlankheitskult: Diätkost und Körperkultur als Suche nach neuen Lebensstilformen 1880-1930. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003.
Smith, Janet. Liquid Assets: the lidos and the open air swimming pools of Britain. English Heritage, 2005.
Szeemann, Harald. Monte Verità: History. 1985. The website at http://www.fileane.com/english/monte_verita_english.htm has further photographs.
Wainwright, Alfred. A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells. 7 Books. Henry Marshall, 1955-1966.
3.14 Class
Allen, David Elliston. The Naturalist in Britain, a Social History, Princeton, 2nd edition, 1994. First published by Allen Lane, 1976.
Harker, Ben. ‘The Manchester Rambler’: Ewan MacColl and the 1932 Mass Trespass (JSTOR). History Workshop Journal, No. 59 (Spring, 2005). Pages 219-228.
Rothman, Benny. 1932 Kinder Trespass: Personal View of the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass. Willow Publishing, 1982.
St John, Charles. Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands. T.N. Foulis, London & Edinburgh, 1919. First published 1846.
Alfred Russel Wallace. (Obituary) H. W. Bates, The Naturalist of the Amazons. Nature, 25 February 1892. S446. Pages 398-399.
3.15 War
Allen, David Elliston. The Naturalist in Britain, a Social History, Princeton, 2nd edition, 1994. First published by Allen Lane, 1976.
Barkas, Geoffrey. The Camouflage Story. Cassell, 1952.
Cott, Hugh. Adaptive Coloration in Animals. Oxford University Press, 1940.
Crowdy, Terry. Deceiving Hitler. Osprey, 2008.
Forbes, Peter. Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage. Yale, 2009.
Forsyth, Isla McLean. From dazzle to the desert: a cultural-historical geography of camouflage. PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012.
Hoskins, William George. The Making of the English Landscape. Pelican, 1970. First published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1955.
Paxman, Jeremy. The English: A Portrait of a People. Penguin, 1999.
Pryor, Francis. The Making of the British Landscape. Penguin, 2011. First published by Allen Lane, 2010.
Rankin, Nicholas. Churchill’s Wizards: The British Genius for Deception. Faber and Faber, 2008.
Rankin, Nicholas. A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Rothenberg, David. Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science and Evolution. Bloomsbury, 2011.
Richardson, Charles. Flashback: A Soldier’s Story. William Kimber, 1985.
Stamp, Laurence Dudley. Land Utilisation Survey of Britain. “Map layer: Great Britain Land Utilisation”. 56 sheets at 1:63360 scale covering Great Britain, unpublished, 1925-1948.
Stroud, Rick. The Phantom Army of Alamein. Bloomsbury, 2012.
Taylor, Isabel. Exploring Englishness, Part 1: The Rural Myth. Albion, Volume 1, Issue 1, Winter 2004.
Weight, Richard. Return to Albion: Intellectuals in Wartime Britain. History Today, Volume 44, Issue 12, 1994.
Welshman, John. Churchill’s Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain. Oxford University Press, 2010.
3.16 Film
Adamson, Joy. Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds. Collins Harvill, 1960.
Attenborough, David. Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster. BBC Books, 2009.
Attenborough, David and Errol Fuller. Drawn From Paradise: The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise. Collins, 2012.
Crawford, Peter. Living Britain: A Wildlife Celebration for the Millennium. BBC, 1999.
Denis, Armand. On Safari: the Story of my Life. Collins, 1963.
van Lawick-Goodall, Jane. In the Shadow of Man. Collins, 1971.
WildFilmHistory. 100 Years of Wildlife Filmmaking.
3.17 Nature Books
Benson, S. Vere. The Observer’s Book of British Birds, 1937.
Chinery, Michael. A Field Guide to the Insects of Britain and Northern Europe. Collins, 1972.
Cocker, Mark and Richard Mabey. Birds Britannica. Chatto and Windus, 2005.
Coward, Thomas Alfred. Bird Haunts and Nature Memories. Frederick Warne, 1922.
Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B. Illustrated by Richard Lewington. Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe. British Wildlife Publishing, 2006.
Goode, David. Nature in Towns and Cities. Collins, 2014.
Gregory, Kenneth. First Cuckoo: Letters to “The Times”, 1900-75. Allen & Unwin, 1976.
Mabey, Richard. Food for Free. Collins, 1972.
Mabey, Richard. Flora Britannica. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996.
MacGillivray, William. A History of British Birds, indigenous and migratory: Including Their Organization, Habits, And Relations ; Remarks On Classification And Nomenclature ; An Account Of The Principal Organs Of Birds, And Observations Relative To Practical Ornithology. (5 volumes) Scott, Webster and Geary, 1837-1852.
MacGillivray, William. A Manual of British Ornithology, being a Short Description of the Birds of Great Britain And Ireland, Including the Essential Characters of the Species, Genera, Families, and Orders. Scott, Webster and Geary, 1840-1842.
MacGillivray, William (descendant). A Memorial Tribute to William MacGillivray. Privately published, Edinburgh, 1901.
Manley, Chris. British Moths and Butterflies. A & C Black, 2008.
Montagu, George. Ornithological Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds. J. White, 1802.
Moss, Stephen. A Bird in the Bush. A Social History of Birdwatching. Aurum, 2005.
Peterson, Roger Tory. Field Guide to the Birds: giving field marks of all species found in eastern North America. Houghton Mifflin, 1934.
Peterson, Roger Tory, Guy Mountfort and P.A.D. Hollom. Birds of Britain and Europe. Collins, 1954.
Phillips, Roger. Mushrooms. Macmillan, 2006.
South, Richard. The Butterflies of the British Isles. Frederick Warne, 1906.
South, Richard. The Moths of the British Isles. Frederick Warne, 1907-1908.
Step, Edward. Trees: A Pocket Guide to the British Sylva. Frederick Warne, 1904.
Streeter, David, C. Hart-Davies, A. Hardcastle, F. Cole and L. Harper. Collins Flower Guide. Collins, 2009.
Svensson, Lars (text, maps), Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterström (illustrations). Collins Bird Guide. 2nd Edition. HarperCollins, 2009.
Witherby, Harry Forbes. A Practical Handbook of British Birds. Witherby, 1920-1924.
Witherby, Harry Forbes, et al. The Handbook of British Birds. 5 volumes. H. F. & G. Witherby, 1938-1941.
Yarrell, William. A History of British Birds. (3 volumes) John Van Voorst, 1843.
3.18 Spiritual Rebels
Caddy, Eileen. Opening Doors Within: 365 Daily Meditations from Findhorn. Findhorn Press, 1986.
Canter, David, Kay Canter and Daphne Swann. The Cranks Recipe Book. Panther, 1982.
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
Diski, Jenny. The Sixties. Profile Books, 2010.
Foster, Steven and Meredith Little. The Book of the Vision Quest: Personal Transformation in the Wilderness. Touchstone, 1989.
Ginsberg, Allen. Howl and Other Poems. City Lights Books, 1956.
Hanbury-Tenison, Robin. Worlds Apart: An Explorer’s Life. Arrow Books, 1991. First published by Granada, 1984.
Hawken, Paul. The Magic Of Findhorn. Harper & Row, 1975.
Leary, Timothy, Ralph Metzner and Richard Alpert. The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Harcourt, 1964.
Lewis, Norman. Genocide, Sunday Times Magazine, 23 February 1969.
Maclean, Dorothy. The Big Book of Angels. Rodale, 2002.
Maclean, Dorothy. To Honor the Earth: Reflections on Living in Harmony with Nature. Findhorn Press, 1991.
MacLean, Rory. Magic Bus. Penguin, 2007. First published 2006.
Marwick, Arthur. The Sixties. Oxford University Press, 1998.
Monbiot, George. Manifesto for Rewilding the World. The Guardian, 27 May 2013.
Sandbrook, Dominic. White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties. Abacus, 2009.
Schwarz, Walter. Obituary: Gerard Morgan-Grenville. The Guardian, 25 March 2009.
Seymour, John. The Guide to Self-Sufficiency. Faber and Faber, 1976.
Sherman, Kay Lynne. The Findhorn Family Cook Book. Random House, 1982.
4. TAKING STOCK
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4.1 Cornucopia
Cowen, Rob and Leo Critchley. Skimming Stones and other ways of being in the wild. Coronet, 2012.
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