Metropolitan Line: A Good Parcel Of English Soil

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Richard Mabey, one of Britain`s leading nature writers, looks in A Good Parcel of English Soil at the relationship between city & country, & how this brings out the power of nature
- part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground, as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin. It is also available in a boxset. ” Richard Mabey`s A Good Parcel of English Soil, his essay on the Metropolitan line, is one of the most compelling segments of Penguin`s Underground Lines.. .eclectic & broad-minded.. .elegantly written”. (Observer). ” Authors include the masterly John Lanchester, the children of Kids Company, comic John O` Farrell & social geographer Danny Dorling. Ranging from the polemical to the fantastical, the personal to the societal, they offer something for every taste. All experience the city as a cultural phenomenon & notice its nature & its people. Read individually they`re delightful small reads, pulled together they offer a particular portrait of a global city”. (Evening Standard). ” Exquisitely diverse”. (The Times). ” Eclectic & broad-minded.. .beautifully designed”. (Tom Cox, Observer).”A fascinating collection with a wide range of styles & themes. The design qualities are excellent, as you might expect from Penguin with a consistent look & feel while allowing distinctive covers for each book. This is a very pleasing set of books”. (A Common Reader blog). ” The contrasts & transitions between books are as stirring as the books themselves...A multidimensional literary jigsaw”. (Londonist). ”A series of short, sharp, city-based vignettes
- some personal, some political & some pictorial.. .each inimitable author finds that our city is complicated but ultimately connected, full of wit, & just the right amount of grit”. (Fabric Magazine). ”A collection of beautiful books”. (Grazia). Praise for Richard Mabey: ” Radiant, tingle-making prose has earned Mabey literary prizes & a multitude of fans”. (Daily Mail). ” Richard Mabey is a man for all seasons, most regions & every kind of landscape”. (Andrew Motion Financial Times).” Refreshing, droll, politically alert, occasionally self-mocking, he has the enviable ability both to write historical overview & also to slip into the woods like a dryad, bringing us back to the trees themselves, their colours & lights & textures”. (Guardian). Richard Mabey has been described as ` Britain`s greatest living nature writer` & is a frequent contributor to the BBC.