E: 15/08 Win 1 of 3 books from the Collins Nature Library

One-Eye

The Collins Nature Library is a new series of classic British nature writing – reissues of long-lost seminal works. The titles have been chosen by one of Britain’s best known and highly-acclaimed nature writers, Robert Macfarlane, who has also written new introductions that put these classics into a modern context. We have three of these volumes available to give away:
“A Land” is Jacquetta Hawkes’ seminal work, and a classic piece of British nature writing. It is the history of the shaping of Britain and its people from the first, lifeless, Pre-Cambrian rocks to the days of the ice-cream carton and the hydrogen bomb.
“Adventures Among Birds” is almost a manifesto for the life of birds. W H Hudson's experience of different forms of birdlife is prodigious, and he weaves a thousand small anecdotes together into a rallying call against indifference to the beauty of birds.
“Nature Near London” is a collection of observational pieces from locations near London at the end of the 19th Century written by R Jefferies. The depth of knowledge and of familiarity with particular places and particular species gives the impression that each small piece is the product of many years of observation.

If you would like to win one of these beautifully produced volumes, please send an e-mail to [EMAIL="comps@theoldie.co.uk"]comps@theoldie.co.uk[/EMAIL] heading your e-mail LOVELYBYNATURE

From The Oldie newsletter of 10/08. One entry per household.