The East Country : almanac tales of valley and shore / Jules Pretty.

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The East Country -- Contents -- Preface -- A Geographic Locator -- January -- 1. The Winter Hesitation -- 2. One Glossy Ibis and Many Ticks -- 3. Winter Gales and Beliefs -- 4. Walk the Line -- 5. The Weight of a Snipe -- 6. The Old Battlefield -- February -- 7. Paths and Prints in Snow -- 8. Closing Time -- 9. To Iken -- 10. Saturation -- 11. The Box Valley -- March -- 12. Disturbing Hints of Spring -- 13. The Beach Crows -- 14. Some Spring for Celandine -- 15. Blackthorn Days -- 16. The Blue Light of Spring -- April -- 17. Two Buzzards

18. The Long Night of Hope19. Mystery Solved -- 20. Nightingales and Green Men -- 21. Sailorsâ#x80;#x99; Reading Room -- 22. The Assington Elms -- May -- 23. The Owl and the Sun -- 24. The Bat and the Wild -- 25. Time Travel -- 26. Since Records Began -- 27. Bells in the Cow Parsley Season -- 28. Encounters -- 29. The Northern Sky -- 30. All Four Migrants -- June -- 31. Magic in the Thicks -- 32. The Lost Shore -- 33. Hollyhock Summer -- 34. A Submission -- 35. Lay-Bys of the A12 -- 36. The Cottage Hospital -- 37. Come Back the Wild

38. AnniversaryJuly -- 39. Village Edgelands -- 40. Nature at a Nuclear Power Station -- 41. Digging for Victory -- 42. Under Another Atomic Sky -- 43. Heat Wave -- August -- 44. Pause for Ragwort -- 45. The End of the Road -- 46. Nightwalk -- 47. Soon, the Departure -- 48. The Tinkerâ#x80;#x99;s Cottage -- 49. The Turn -- September -- 50. The Path -- 51. Mud Birds -- 52. Angels in the Back Lanes -- 53. Season of Mist and Fire -- 54. In Memoriam -- 55. The Rhythm of Farm Names -- October -- 56. Insect Life -- 57. A New Anniversary

58. Things and Doubt59. Alarm Call -- 60. The Sands of Another Summer -- 61. Wait for the End -- November -- 62. Bonfire Night -- 63. At First, Silence -- 64. The Night Hours -- 65. Leaf Fall and Mists -- 66. Beach Fishermen and Water Sprites -- 67. Much Can Change in a Short Time -- 68. Passing Years -- December -- 69. A Marsh Murmuration -- 70. Poor Manâ#x80;#x99;s Heaven -- 71. Dark and Wet at the Solstice -- 72. Pruning and Planning -- 73. Dark and Wet, Again -- 74. An East Wind -- Crossing the New Year -- Acknowledgments -- Notes by Tale

The East Country is a work of creative nonfiction in which the acclaimed nature writer Jules Pretty integrates memoir, natural history, cultural critique, and spiritual reflection into a single compelling narrative. Pretty frames his book around Aldo Leopold and his classic A Sand County Almanac, bringing Leopold's ethic--that some could live without nature but most should not--into the twenty-first century. In The East Country, Pretty follows the seasons through seventy-four tales set in a variety of landscapes from valley to salty shore. Pretty convinces us that we should all develop long attachments to the local, observing that the land can change us for the better.

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