Noticing Nature: the British microseason project Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Noticing Nature: the British microseason project on X
A 4-woman team noticing nature and building a seasonal calendar, 5 days at a time. New book, Nature's Calendar, coming Sept 2023 with @GrantaBooks

Heathland
Clive Chatters
@biodiversityfan (and I do agree with him about heathland. Reading the new Clive Chatters book on them, which is excellent).
Hardcover, 2021
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
London Labour and the London Poor: Selected Edition
Henry Mayhew
In the 1840s, Henry Mayhew comments in London Labour and the London Poor: "The vending of tea and coffee, in the streets, was little if at all known twenty years ago, saloop being then the beverage supplied from stalls to the late and early wayfarers."
Paperback, 2019
$24.75$12.38 + Free shipping50% off your first book
After London
Richard Jefferies
We've been fascinated by the idea of green nature taking over our grey cities for a long time. Richard Jefferies imagined it in his 1885 eco-apocalyptic novel 'After London' " Ecologists started noticing the biodiversity of these places after World War II bombing. https://t.co/iAEs29H8i2
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A History of British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory: Including Their Organization, Habits, and Relations; Remarks on Classification and Nomenclature;
William 1796-1852 Macgillivray
The cottage was built by Dr Laurence Edmondston, a specialist in the birds and the natural history of Shetland. His work informed a number of nationally significant ornithological works including A History of British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory by William MacGillvray (1840).
Hardcover, 2016
$44.95$22.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
After London
Richard Jefferies
We've been fascinated by the idea of green nature taking over our grey cities for a long time. Richard Jefferies imagined it in his 1885 eco-apocalyptic novel 'After London' " Ecologists started noticing the biodiversity of these places after World War II bombing. https://t.co/iAEs29H8i2
Paperback, 2023
$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature;
William Macgillivray
The cottage was built by Dr Laurence Edmondston, a specialist in the birds and the natural history of Shetland. His work informed a number of nationally significant ornithological works including A History of British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory by William MacGillvray (1840).
Paperback, 2010
$32.95$16.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A History of British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory
Macgillivray William
The cottage was built by Dr Laurence Edmondston, a specialist in the birds and the natural history of Shetland. His work informed a number of nationally significant ornithological works including A History of British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory by William MacGillvray (1840).
Paperback, 2022
$31.95$15.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
In the letter to her friend Olga asked Rachel to help her find more information about the aerial spraying of DDT. Olga's letter prompted 4 years of research for Carson, & resulted in "Silent Spring" which created a new genre of literature and started an environmental movement.
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Love
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy celebrates cuckoo spit in her luxurious love poem, 'Hour': so nothing dark will end our shining hour, no jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit hung from the blade of grass at your ear, no chandelier or spotlight see you better lit
Hardcover, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book