Richard Mabey
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Richard Mabey is a naturalist and author. Since 1988, he has written a regular column for BBC Wildlife magazine.
Mabey has also written on countryside and art issues for The Sunday Times, The Times, The Sunday Telegraph and the Countryman. A selction of these writings was compiled as the book Country Matters.
He also wrote and narrated the 1996 BBC television series Postcards from the Country, for whose eight, 40- minute episodes he was series producer, as well as being the producer- director on four. His books The Unofficial Countryside and The Flowering of Britain were also made into BBC TV series.
His biography of Gilbert White won the 1986 Whitbread Biography of the Year award.
Mabey has suffered from depression and his latest book Nature Cure describes his experiences and recovery in the context of man's relationship with landscape and nature.
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Bibliography
His books
- Pollution Handbook (Penguin Books 1974)
- Plants with a Purpose (Collins, 1977)
- Plants with a Purpose (Fontana 1979)
- The Common Ground (Hutchinson, 1980)
- The Flowering of Britain (Hutchinson, 1980)
- Back to the roots (with Francesca Greenoak; Arena, 1983)
- In a Green Shade (Hutchinson, 1983)
- Gilbert White (Ebury Press, 1986)
- The New Age Herbalist (w. Michael McIntyre; Prentice Hall 1988)
- The Flowering of Kew (Ebury Press; 1988)
- The Flowering of Britain: revised edition (Chatto and Windus, 1989)
- Home Country (Century, 1990)
- The Flowers of May (with Caroline May, illustrator; Collins and Brown, 1990)
- A Nature Journal (with illustrations by Clare Roberts; Chatto, 1991)
- The Book of Nightingales
- Country Matters
- Flora Britanica
- The Flora of Hampshire (co-author)
- The Flowering of Britain
- Food for Free
- The Frampton Flora
- Landlocked
- Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and Europe
- Plantcraft
- Roadside Wild Life Book
- The Secret Life of the New Forest (with Eric Ashby, illustrator)
- The Unofficial Countryside
- Whistling in the Dark: In Pursuit of the Nightingale
- The Wildwood (with Gareth Lovett Jones)
- The Yorkshire Dales
- Nature Cure (Chatto and Windus, 2005, ISBN 0701176016)
Children's books
- Street Flowers
- Oak and Company
Editorship
- Gardener's Labyrinth (Thomas Hill, OUP, 1987)
- Second Nature - British artists, writers, record Nature of UK (Jonathan Cape, 1984)
- The Oxford Book Of Nature Writing (OUP, 1999)
Introduction
- The Tree (Peter Wood, David & Charles, 1993)