Alan Taylor
2009, hardback, 384 pages

The unique beauty of the British countryside has been celebrated in countless memoirs and private diaries.

This delightful book gathers together the very finest, from Rev. Gilbert White's journal of life at his famous home in Selborne to Beatrix Potter's holiday diaries from Perthshire.

Elsewhere, the thoughts of Dorothy Wordsworth and John Fowles rub shoulders with the words of Alan Clark and Queen Victoria.  Together these private records paint a rich and surprising picture of a landscape and a way of life we think we know so well.