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  • Galloway

    Life In a Vanishing Landscape

    by Patrick Laurie ...
    On the land of his ancestors in Scotland, a young farmer struggles to find a balance between farming, the conservation of wild, and human culture as he establishes a herd of heritage cattle.Galloway, an ancient region in an obscure corner of Scotland, has a proud and unique heritage based on hardy cattle and wide moors. But as the twentieth century progressed, the people of Galloway deserted the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Native

    Life in a Vanishing Landscape

    by Patrick Laurie ...
    A Times BestsellerShortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing'Remarkable, and so profoundly enjoyable to read ... Its importance is huge, setting down a vital marker in the 21st century debate about how we use and abuse the land' - Joyce McMillan, ScotsmanDesperate to connect with his native Galloway, Patrick Laurie plunges into work on his family farm in the hills of southwest S... ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Data Analysis and Approximate Models

    Model Choice, Location-Scale, Analysis of Variance, Nonparametric Regression and Image Analysis

    by Patrick Laurie Davies ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability
    The First Detailed Account of Statistical Analysis That Treats Models as ApproximationsThe idea of truth plays a role in both Bayesian and frequentist statistics. The Bayesian concept of coherence is based on the fact that two different models or parameter values cannot both be true. Frequentist statistics is formulated as the problem of estimating ... Read more

    $225.99 USD

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  • The Grey Islands

    by John Steffler ...
    Since its first publication in 1985, The Grey Islands has become a classic of Canadian wilderness writing to set beside the works of Thoreau, Annie Dillard and Aldo Leopold. Using a broad range of forms and styles - lyric, anecdote, field notes, documents and pseudo-documents, ghost story, tall tale - Steffler relates the story of one man's pilgrimage to a remote island of Newfoundland's northern ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The January Man

    A Year of Walking Britain

    by Christopher Somerville ...
    'Evocatively written and charming' - Countryfile'The January Man is a book that makes you want to pull on your boots, grab a map and get out there' - Country LifeThe January Man is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder's 'The January Man'. Month by month, season by season and region by region, Christopher Somerville walks the British Isles, following routes that ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rain

    Four Walks in English Weather

    by Melissa Harrison ...
    A wonderful meditation on the English landscape in wet weather by the acclaimed novelist and nature writer, Melissa Harrison.Whenever rain falls, our countryside changes. Fields, farms, hills and hedgerows appear altered, the wildlife behaves differently, and over time the terrain itself is transformed.In Rain, Melissa Harrison explores our relationship with the weather as she follows the course ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • At the Water's Edge

    A Walk in the Wild

    by John Lister-Kaye ...
    "This wonderful collection of wildlife encounters will make anyone want to pull on their boots and re-discover the world on our doorsteps."—Kate Humble, TV host & authorFor the last thirty years, naturalist John Lister-Kaye has taken the same circular walk from his home deep in a Scottish glen up to a small hill loch. Each day brings a new observation or an unexpected encounter—a fragile spider's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Year in the Woods

    The Diary of a Forest Ranger

    by Colin Elford, Craig Taylor ...
    Colin Elford's A Year in the Woods is an enthralling journey into the heart of the English countryside - with a preamble by Craig Taylor.Colin Elford spends his days alone - alone but for the deer, the squirrels, the rabbits, the birds, and the many other creatures inhabiting the woods.From the crisp cold of January, through the promise of spring and the heat of summer, and then into damp autumn ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Beautiful Indifference

    Stories

    by Sarah Hall ...
    Winner of the Portico PrizeWinner of the Edge Hill University Short Story PrizeShort-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award“Every one of the seven tales here delights and disturbs in equal measure. The Beautiful Indifference illustrates that short fiction is indeed a finely wrought art form, and Hall is an artist of considerable and concise skill. Each story is a gem, but ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wild Silence

    A Memoir

    by Raynor Winn ...
    **AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Heartfelt and heartening … a full-throated paean to the fundamental importance of nature in all its glory, fury and impermanence." —Wall Street JournalThe incredible follow-up to the international bestseller The Salt Path, a story of finding your way back home.**Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking 630 homeless miles along The Salt ... Read more

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  • Black Country

    by Liz Berry ...
    WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2014*PBS Recommendation 2014*‘When I became a bird, Lord, nothing could not stop me…’In Black Country, Liz Berry takes flight: to Wrens Nest, Gosty Hill, Tipton-on-Cut; to the places of home. The poems move from the magic of childhood – bostin fittle at Nanny’s, summers before school – into deeper, darker territory: sensual love, enchanted weddings ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • The Secret History of Here

    A Year in the Valley

    by Alistair Moffat ...
    The Secret History of Here is the story of a single place in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat’s farm now stands has been occupied since prehistoric times. Walking this landscape you can feel the presence and see the marks of those who lived here before.But it is also the story of everywhere. In uncovering the history of one piece of land, Moffat shows how history is all ... Read more

    $10.69 USD