Four Fields by Tim Dee
Four fields spread around the world: their grasses, their hedges, their birds, their skies, and their natural and human histories. Four real fields - walkable, mappable, man-made, mowable and knowable, but also secretive, mysterious, wild, contested and changing. This book tells the story of four green fields.
Heavy with poetic resonance… [Dee] pushes the boundaries of nature writing, creating a form that is lyrical but deeply alert to ecological crisis-- Miriam Darlington * BBC Wildlife *
First-rate evocation of the natural world merges with an elegiac note in these rich stories of the soil. * Independent *
[Dee’s] descriptions are constantly inventive; wry and fearless… A project as expansive, and as mesmerizing, as a fenland sky. -- Mary Crockett * Scotsman *
Dee’s writing is often quietly poetic, with the spirit of Gerard Manley Hopkins hovering overhead. -- Jon Day * Daily Telegraph *
Four Fields is an enthralling and unexpected book – or four short books – about what we have made of the natural world. The language itself is rich and loamy. There is evidence of much thought here, as well as a naturalist's profound observation. It is proof that really, there is no such thing as "nature writing" – Dee gives us the wide world and everything in it, including ourselves and all our works. -- Kathleen Jamie * Guardian *
First-rate evocation of the natural world merges with an elegiac note in these rich stories of the soil. * Independent *
[Dee’s] descriptions are constantly inventive; wry and fearless… A project as expansive, and as mesmerizing, as a fenland sky. -- Mary Crockett * Scotsman *
Dee’s writing is often quietly poetic, with the spirit of Gerard Manley Hopkins hovering overhead. -- Jon Day * Daily Telegraph *
Four Fields is an enthralling and unexpected book – or four short books – about what we have made of the natural world. The language itself is rich and loamy. There is evidence of much thought here, as well as a naturalist's profound observation. It is proof that really, there is no such thing as "nature writing" – Dee gives us the wide world and everything in it, including ourselves and all our works. -- Kathleen Jamie * Guardian *
Tim Dee has been a birdwatcher all his life. His first book, The Running Sky (2009), described his first five birdwatching decades. In the same year he collaborated with the poet Simon Armitage on the anthology The Poetry of Birds. Since then he has written and edited several critically acclaimed books: Four Fields (2013), a study of modern pastoral, which was shortlisted for the 2014 Ondaatje Prize; Ground Work (as editor, 2017), a collection of new commissioned writing on place by contemporary writers; and most recently, Landfill (2018), a modern nature–junk monograph on gulls and rubbish. He left the BBC in 2018 having worked as a radio producer for nearly thirty years. He lives in three places: in a flat in inner-city Bristol, in a cottage on the edge of the Cambridgeshire Fens, and in the last-but-one house from the south western tip of Africa, at the Cape of Good Hope.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099541370 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099541378 |
| Title | Four Fields |
| Author | Tim Dee |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-08-28 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for East Anglian Book Award for General Non-fiction 2014 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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