Description: Accompany woodsman Ben Law as he celebrates the amazing diversity of craft products made from materials sourced directly from the woods. Including brooms, rakes, pegs, spoons, chairs, baskets, fencing, yurts & even a caravan, the items are hewn from freshly cut green wood, shaped by hand & infused with a simple, rustic beauty. Author Biography: Ben Law, woodsman, craftsman, eco-builder, teacher & writer, lives & works in Prickly Nut Wood in West Sussex, UK. The building of his unique woodland home was featured on Channel 4`s Grand Designs in the UK & was voted by viewers as the most popular episode ever. In addition to the coppicing of his own woodl&, he runs courses on sustainable woodland management & permaculture, runs a specialist eco- building company & trains apprentices. ...

This attractive & cleverly structured guide gives walkers ten of the finest walks through the woods & forests of the Lake District National Park in a popular pocketable format. With clear information, an overview & introduction for each walk, expertly written numbered directions, large scale Ordnance Survey maps, superb, eye-grabbing panoramic photographs, & interpretation of points of interest along the way, these guides set a new standard in clarity & ease-of-use. Featured walks include: Claife Heights, Grizedale Forest, Staveley Woods, Grasmere Woods, Haverthwaite Heights, Muncaster Estate, Ennerdale, Dodd Wood, Ashness Woods, & Silver Crag. ...

Amazing watercolour paintings of animals, birds, plants & funghi that can be found in the world`s woodlands. Each picture is accompanied by a line drawing for the user to complete themselves
- either copying the colours or creating their own unique version.
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Woodlands by Oliver Rackham is a compendium of evocations, celebrations & words of wisdom on the trees of the British landscape that have inspired & fascinated naturalists & enthusiasts through the centuries. Looking at such diverse evidence as the woods used in buildings & ships, & how woodland has been portrayed in pictures & photographs, Rackham traces British woodland through the ages, from the evolution of wildwood, through man's effect on the landscape, modern forestry & its legacy, & recent conservation efforts & their effects. Rackham explores woodlands through their names, surveys, mapping & legal documents, archaeology, photographs & works of art. ...

` Trees are wildlife just as deer or primroses are wildlife. Each species has its own agenda & its own interactions with human activities.. .` Written by one of Britain`s best-known naturalists, Woodlands offers a fascinating new insight into the trees of the British landscape that have filled us with awe & inspiration throughout the centuries. Looking at such diverse evidence as the woods used in buildings & ships, & how woodland has been portrayed in pictures & photographs, Rackham traces British woodland through the ages, from the evolution of wildwood, through man`s effect on the landscape, modern forestry & its legacy, & recent conservation efforts & their effects. In his lively & thoroughly engaging style, Rackham explores woodlands & their history, through names, surveys, mapping & legal documents, archaeology, photographs & works of art, thus offering an utterly compelling insight into British woodlands & how they have come to shape a national obsession. ...

Woodley in 1897 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map covers the eastern part of Bredbury, stretching from Butterhouse Green & Woodley eastward to Greavefold. Features include Victoria Works, St Mark's church, Butterhouse Green area, stretch of Peak Forest Canal, Cheshire Lines Railway & Sheffield & Midland Joint Railway with Woodley Junction station, Heald Wood, Greavefold with Holy Innocents church, Botany Mill, Wood Mill, Manor House. An 1896 directory of Bredbury is included on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Woodley in 1897 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the eastern part of Bredbury, stretching from Butterhouse Green & Woodley eastward to Greavefold. Features include Victoria Works, St Mark`s church, Butterhouse Green area, stretch of Peak Forest Canal, Cheshire Lines Railway & Sheffield & Midland Joint Railway with Woodley Junction station, Heald Wood, Greavefold with Holy Innocents church, Botany Mill, Wood Mill, Manor House, etc. An 1896 directory of Bredbury is on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

” Woods etc.” is Alice Oswald`s third collection of poems, & follows the success of her widely acclaimed river-poem ” Dart”, which was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Extending the concerns of ” Dart” & written over a period of several years, these poems combine abrupt honesty with an exuberant rhetorical confidence, at times recalling the oral & anonymous tradition with which they share such affinity. ...

A tribute to the natural history of some of our most iconic British woods. The National Trust manages hundreds of woods, covering over 60, 000 acres of England & Wales. They include many of the oldest woodlands in the land & some of the oldest living things of any kind
- trees that are thousands of years old. From Dean to Epping, from Hatfield to Sherwood, this book covers the natural history of our forests & how they have changed the face of our landscape. Covering the different species of trees that give our woods their unique characters, the plants & animals that inhabit them & the way their appearance changes throughout the seasons, Woods is a fascinating & beautifully illustrated celebration of Britain`s trees & the ancient stories that surround them.
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Ben Law has lived as a woodsman in Prickly Nut Wood for over 20 years. His authentic, incredible sense of the land & the wildlife, ...