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The Unofficial Countryside
  • ISBN: 9780956254559
  • Pages: 184
  • Illustrations: B/W illustrations by Mary Newcomb
  • Binding: Sewn paperback
  • Introduction: Iain Sinclair
  • Publisher: Little Toller

The Unofficial Countryside

Richard Mabey
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During the early 1970s Richard Mabey explored crumbling city docks and overgrown bomb-sites, navigated inner city canals and car parks, and discovered there was scarcely a nook in our urban landscape incapable of supporting life.

The Unofficial Countryside is a timely reminder of how nature flourishes against the odds, surviving in the most obscure and surprising places.



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