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Nature Cure
by Richard Mabey
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Pub Date Nov 30 2011 | Archive Date Aug 05 2014
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
'Britain's greatest living nature writer' The Times
Rediscover the extraodinary power of nature and the British wilderness, from award-winning naturalist and author Richard Mabey
In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression. The natural world – which since childhood had been a source of joy and inspiration for him – became meaningless.
Then, cared for by friends, he moved to East Anglia and he started to write again. Having left the cosseting woods of the Chiltern hills for the open flatlands of Norfolk, Richard Mabey found exhilaration in discovering a whole new landscape and gained fresh insights into our place in nature.
Structured as intricately as a novel, a joy to read, truthful, exquisite and questing, Nature Cure is a book of hope, not just for individuals, but for our species.
'A brilliant, candid and heartfelt memoir...how he broke free of depression, reshaped his life and reconnected with the wild becomes nothing short of a manifesto for living...Mabey's particular vision, informed by a lifetime's reading and observation, is ultimately optimistic' Sunday Times
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition - available for readers in the UK and Commonwealth.
Advance Praise
A
book of which only he could have written a single page...marvellously
observed, deeply felt from sentence to sentence. The writing is
exquisite - Evening Standard
A
brilliant, candid and heartfelt memoir...The account of how he broke
free of depression, reshaped his life and reconnected with the wild
becomes nothing short of a manifesto for living...Mabey's particular
vision, informed by a lifetime's reading and observation, is ultimately
optimistic. It is also what makes his voice so appealing amid all the
froth and flam of the eco-debate - Sunday Times
Mabey
is a radical, inheritor of an old English tradition...The core of the
book is his exploration of his new landscape. It feels a privilege to
share it, watching him unpick the layers of watery Norfolk, with
dazzling skill and the warmest of hearts, as his troubled mind heals - Independent
Nature
Cure is one of the most talked about books of our time.' 'Richard Mabey
charts the primacy of the imagination in a sensual re-engagement with
nature - Daily Telegraph Weekend
Written
in the radiant, tingle-making prose that has earned Mabey literary
prizes and a multitude of fans... both a wake-up call and an example of
how the love of nature can electrify and heal the imagination. - Daily Mail
What
good company is Richard Mabey - and how utterly necessary...like Seamus
Heaney, he is one of those writers whose language is pressed very close
to the world. It's exact and attentive, not a "dirty glass" which
divides us from nature. - Scotland on Sunday
Nature
Cure moves between the nervous breakdown of an individual and the
madness of the modern world with a prescience akin to that of TS Eliot's
Waste Land. - Guardian
He
has rediscovered the credo that in his black moments he feared he had
lost for ever: a belief in the importance of a sensual engagement with
the world and a conviction that, to remain on an even keel in life, it
is foolish to ignore the links that exist between feelings, the
imagination and intelligence. - Spectator
Part
autobiography, part meditation on the relationship between nature and
culture. It's a dense, meandering work, a bit like Norfolk, with rivers
of shining, sinuous prose suddenly emerging from intriguing thickets of
opinion and memory... Mabey understands that beautiful writing is a
matter of never being bigger than your subject...and has not lost the
childlike pleasure in nature that transports him and his readers to the
gates of heaven. - Daily Telegraph
An inspiring book. - Sunday Telegraph
Britain's greatest living nature writer. - The Times
A beautifully written memoir. - The Guardian
An inspiring read. - The Independent
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'Britain's greatest living nature writer' (The Times) describes how he conquered clinical depression through his re-awakened love of nature.
'Britain's greatest living nature writer' (The Times) describes how he conquered clinical depression through his re-awakened love of nature.
Available Editions
EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9781448114696 |
PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |