Bookshelf
Reading recommendations from the Arts of Place network:
Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, AD 1803
Dorothy Wordsworth
The Living Mountain
Nan Shepherd
In Search of the Essence of Place
Petr Král
The Natural History of Oxfordshire
Robert Plot
The Making of the English Landscape
W.G. Hoskins
The Heart of the Country
James and Robin Ravilious
On the Black Hill
Bruce Chatwin
A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
An Oxfordshire Market Gardener
The Diary of Joseph Turrill of Garsington 1863-67
Collected Poems, 1956-2001
Thomas Kinsella
The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard
Four Hedges
Clare Leighton
The Harz Journey
Heinrich Heine
The Discovery of France
Graham Robb
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
Jan Morris
Mr Roscoe’s Garden
Jyll Bradley
Our Common Land and Other Short Essays (1877)
Octavia Hill
New York Head Shop and Museum
Audre Lorde
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
Samuel R. Delany
Nigh-No-Place
Jen Hadfield
Ditch Vision: Essays on Poetry, Nature and Place
Jeremy Hooker
John Clare
John Clare, The Natural History Prose Writings of John Clare, ed. by Margaret Grainger (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) John Clare,…
‘Beachy Head’
Charlotte Smith
Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900
Franco Moretti
Geographies of the Book
Charles W. J. Withers and Miles Ogborn
On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World
Tim Cresswell
Frankenstein (1818)
Mary Shelley
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)
Sarah Orne Jewett
The White Doe of Rylstone: Or, The Fate of the Nortons (1815)
William Wordsworth
Local Attachments
Fiona Stafford
The History of Myddle
Richard Gough
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