Country Matters: A Countryside Companion: 74 tips, tales and talking points

Meg Clothier and her father, Jonny, have written a book that combines decades of practical know-how with a passion for literature and lore to bring the world beyond our towns and cities to life.

Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 08 June 2023
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

A delightful companion with surprises and delights on every page, Tristan Gooley, author of The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs, has written a highly readable and scrupulously balanced book. John Wright, author of The Forager's Calendar, has praised it as "lovely, luminous Bella Bathurst, author of Field Work, has written a delightful and eye-opening book. Need advice on how to raise a chicken or pluck a pheasant? Wondering how to train your dog, catch a mole, or sneak through a field of cows? Perhaps you're after the secret to the fattest pumpkin, the wormiest compost, the classiest snowdrop? Or are you simply in love with our captivating landscapes, keen to unlock the history and culture of our woods and fields, our footpaths and boundaries, our meadows and moors? In this delightful and eye-opening book, Meg Clothier and her father, Jonny, combine decades of practical know-how with a passion for literature and lore, braced up by a keen understanding of the conundrums of the contemporary countryside. From hedges and holloways to henges and ha-has, Country Matters brings the world beyond our towns and cities—its pleasures and perplexities, its dilemmas and delights—to entertaining and illuminating life.

Weight: 552g
Dimension: 223 x 146 x 36 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788168694
Edition number: Main