England In Particular

Apples, bandstands, beach huts, black dogs, breweries, bricks, cakes, causeways, chalk horses, cheese rolling, cider, cooling towers, curbstones, dances, dialect, dry stone walls, fens, fire festivals, foxes, gargoyles, geology, ghosts, heaths, heronries, ice houses, jet, lagoons, maypoles, mazes, moats, nightingales, peat, pies, primrose banks, quicksand, rhubarb, sheep, spoil heaps, terraced houses, topiary, weather, windmills, zawns... This highly illustrated encyclopaedia of all that is distinctive and particular to our immediate surroundings is the culmination of more than twenty years' work by Sue Clifford and Angela King, founder-directors of the influential environmental charity Common Ground; their credentials as authors of this book are impeccable - it was Common Ground (of which Richard Mabey is a director) that compiled the bestselling 'Flora Britannica'. Common Ground have become renowned for the striking graphics they have employed to spread their pioneering mess.