Ground Work av Tim Dee

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<b>The essential and defining new collection of the best British nature writing</b><br><br><b>‘Tim Dee has brought together a wonderous array of talent for this life-affirming, often magical anthology’ <i>Observer</i></b><br><br>We are living in the anthropocene – an epoch where everything is being determined by the activities of just one soft-skinned, warm-blooded, short-lived, pedestrian species. <br><br><i>How do we make our way through the ruins that we have made? </i><br><br>This anthology tries to answer this as it explores new and enduring cultural landscapes, in a celebration of local distinctiveness that includes new work from some of our finest writers. We have memories of childhood homes from <b>Adam Thorpe</b>, <b>Marina Warner</b> and <b>Sean O’Brien</b>; we journey with<b> John Burnside</b> to the Arizona desert, with <b>Hugh Brody</b> to the Canadian Arctic; going from <b>Tessa Hadley’s</b> hymn to her London garden to caving in the Men