Richard Mabey’s Weeds and Beechcombings
by Jasper Sharp, 4 August, 2017, 0 comments
Richard Mabey is one of Britain’s most compelling writers on our natural and not-so-natural environments and the botanical wonders to be found amongst them. He introduced a whole new generation to the joys of foraging with his breakthrough 1972 publication Food for Free, while his essential 1996 Flora Britannica was an ambitious attempt to exhaustively catalogue all the native and naturalised plants that grow within the British Isles.
What makes Mabey such a pleasurable and informative read is the affable yet authoritative first person voice he brings to his writing, Read more...
