Common Ground av Rob Cowen

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<p><b>ONE OF BRITAIN''S FAVOURITE NATURE BOOKS AS FEATURED ON BBC''s <i>WINTERWATCH</i></b><br><br><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016 </b><br><br><b>''Bold and beautiful.'' Robert Macfarlane</b><br><br><b>''Sensitive, thoughtful and poetic ... leading us into a whole new way of looking at the world'' Michael Palin</b><br><br><b>''Touched by genius'' John Lewis-Stempel </b><br><br><b>''Absolutely mesmerizing, utterly beautiful and engrossing</b><b>'' Joanne Harris</b><br><br>After moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire, and about to become a father for the first time, Rob Cowen finds himself in unfamiliar territory. Disoriented, hemmed in by winter and yearning for open space, he ventures out to a nearby edge-land: a pylon-slung tangle of wood, hedge, field, meadow and river that lies unclaimed and overlooked on the outskirts of town.<br><br>Digging deeper into this lost landscape, he begins to uncover its many layers and lives ¿ beast, bird, insect, plant and people ¿