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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 and country, and 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
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 and broad-minded ... elegantly written'
Observer
'Authors include the masterly John
Lanchester, the children of Kids Company, comic John
O'Farrell and 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 and notice
its nature and 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 and
broad-minded ... beautifully designed' Tom Cox,
Observer
'A
fascinating collection with a wide range of styles and
themes. The design qualities are excellent, as you might
expect from Penguin with a consistent look and feel
while allowing distinctive covers for each book. This is
a very pleasing set of books' A Common Reader
blog
'The contrasts and 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 and some pictorial ... each inimitable author
finds that our city is complicated but ultimately
connected, full of wit, and 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 and a multitude of fans', Daily
Mail
'Richard Mabey is a man for all seasons,
most regions and 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 and
also to slip into the woods like a dryad, bringing us
back to the trees themselves, their colours and lights
and textures', Guardian
Richard Mabey has been
described as 'Britain's greatest living nature writer'
and is a frequent contributor to the BBC.
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