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Homecoming
A Guided Journal to Lead You Back to Nature
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'Nobody writes about the natural world like her' INDIA KNIGHT 'Absolutely gorgeous . . . never has there been a nicer way to learn' KATE BRADBURY Welcome to your own, personal nature journal, and a new way of being in the world. A year-long course in...
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'Nobody writes about the natural world like her' INDIA KNIGHT
'Absolutely gorgeous . . . never has there been a nicer way to learn' KATE BRADBURY
Welcome to your own, personal nature journal, and a new way of being in the world.
A year-long course in noticing, you can start in any month and follow the stories unfolding around you — wherever you live.
Featuring monthly guides, birdsong to listen out for, beautiful illustrations, checklists and tips, Homecoming will help you connect to nature, boost your wellbeing, and plug you back into the rhythm of the seasons.
Write down the very best thing you experience in nature each day and learn how to establish your own rituals, high points and habits to carry you through the year.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781399618779
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 07 November 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 214.0mm
Weight: 760g
Pages: 320
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About the Author
Melissa Harrison is a novelist and nature writer. She contributes a monthly Nature Notebook column to The Times and writes for the FT Weekend, the Guardian and the New Statesman. Her most recent novel, All Among the Barley, was the UK winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. It was a Waterstones Paperback of the Year and a Book of the Year in the Observer, the New Statesman and the Irish Times. Her previous books have been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction (At Hawthorn Time) and the Wainwright Prize (Rain). She lives in Suffolk.
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