A British Flora

'There can be nothing but praise for this attractive, erudite volume … a richly packed, loving book' Times Literary Supplement 'Almost every book I have written in the last eighteen years has been informed by A British Flora.' John Lewis-Stempel A lost classic, now back in print in stunning livery, Geoffrey Grigson's book of Britain's flora is a must-have treasure trove for every walker, forager and lover of our countryside. Listing flowers and trees of the field, hedgerow and heathland, both rare and familiar, with their Latin, common and regional names, it includes their magical, mythical, medicinal and culinary properties, and their role in shaping the culture, religion and history of these isles. Beautifully written, scattered with sixteenth-century woodcuts, rhymes, proverbs and potions, carefully cross-referenced and indexed and with a new foreword, A British Flora is the ultimate rural companion. And while ten wildflowers have been 'lost' and much of our flora depleted since it was first published in 1955, it illustrates all that the British countryside should be and can still be. An essential reference and a beautiful gift. 'One of the loveliest but also most useful illustrated gift books of the season.' The Bookseller