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“Walter Weston was an English clergyman, writer and mountaineer. I first encountered his work when I was researching nature writers who had visited Japan. Weston was famously captivated by Japanese landscapes, and he brought the Japanese Alps to the attention of the world with this book, The Playground of the Far East. I can really identify with Weston’s descriptions of alpine Japan – its silence and solitude; its vast beauty. I remember he describes a ‘mighty tree-grown amphitheatre’ above a cliff that ‘falls in three great leaps a thousand feet’ – to me this is such a powerful image. This book conjures a new world on every page.” Read more...
Chris Thorogood, Biologist
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The Well-Tempered Garden
by Christopher Lloyd -
The Digger Movement In The Days Of The Commonwealth, As Revealed In The Writings Of Gerrard Winstanley
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The Playground of the Far East
by Walter Weston -
The Morville Hours
by Katherine Swift -
Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters
by David Hinton & Zhuangzi (aka Chuang Tzu) -
Hungry City
by Carolyn Steel
