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A man's decade-long pursuit of peregrine falcons in the Essex countryside, rendered in ecstatic prose.
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H Is for Hawk
After her father's sudden death, a Cambridge historian buys a goshawk and withdraws into training it, alongside a reading of T. H. White's own failed attempt.
The Life of the Bee
A naturalist's meditation on the year of a beehive, from the swarm and the founding of a city to the nuptial flight and the massacre of the males, and on what the hive suggests about human life.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
A year at a Virginia creek, watched by Dillard in essays that move from muskrat to praying mantis to the theology of a world that keeps eating itself.
Platero and I
Prose poems of a poet and Platero, his small silver-grey donkey, walking the streets and fields of Moguer, an Andalusian village, through the seasons of a year.
People in the Summer Night
Over one summer night in the Finnish countryside, a birth, a death and a few chance meetings pass among the people of a village.
Pan
Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, living alone with his dog in a forest hut in northern Norway one summer, falls for Edvarda, the moody daughter of the local trader, and the two torment each other.
The Issa Valley
Thomas, a boy growing up with his grandparents in a river valley in the Lithuanian countryside after the First World War, learns about nature, faith and death.
Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996
Thirty years of Heaney's poems, from Death of a Naturalist to The Spirit Level, with his Nobel lecture.
To a God Unknown
Joseph Wayne leaves his father's Vermont farm for a green valley in California, and comes to believe the great oak beside his new house holds his dead father's spirit.
The Yearling
Jody Baxter, a boy living with his parents on a hardscrabble farm in the Florida scrub in the 1870s, adopts an orphaned fawn and calls it Flag.
Arcadia Borealis
Selected poems by Karlfeldt, many sung by Fridolin, a learned peasant of his native Dalarna, about the farms, festivals and seasons of rural Sweden.
Green Hills of Africa
Hemingway's account of a month on safari in East Africa in 1933, hunting kudu across the plains and arguing about writing around the campfire.