 | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Perennial Classics) by Annie Dillard
Buy used from: £0.96 A book about the importance of living with a sense of place. A hymn to the local, written on the brink of globalisation
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 | Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.47 A prize to anyone who can describe the effect Sebald's prose has on people. Melancholic-grievous-rhythmic? Doesn't quite do it justice
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 | Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £5.27 An instant classic: drifts from waterscape descriptions of exceptional originality to brilliant anecdote
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 | The Songlines (Vintage classics) by Bruce Chatwin
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Well, it's mendacious, self-aggrandising, unfinished, and spellbinding. Pretty much like Chatwin's life, then.
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 | Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
Buy new: £19.84 / Used from: £7.67 McPhee is the greatest living reportage writer, and this is the best in-print work about geology, fit to rival Hugh Miller
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 | Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape by Barry Lopez
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.49 How can anyone write this beautifully?
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 | Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination by Robert Macfarlane
Buy used from: £18.35 At last - an intelligent AND beautiful book about mountains
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