A William Condry Reader

A tribute to world-famous naturalist and nature writer, William Condry, being a selection of his rich writings, compiled by friend and fellow nature writer, Jim Perrin. Renowned for his 'Country Diary', published in The Guardian for over 40 years, Condry had an infectious passion and concern for conservation, and the landscape and wildlife of mid-Wales inspired much of his writings.

ISBN: 9781848518834

Price: £14.99

Department: Nature and Wildlife, Biog, Biographical

Format: Hardback

Language: English

No. of pages: 222

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Buy this book. It will reward you with new ways of looking – both at the writings of William Condry, and at nature itself. - Richard Hartnup, Gwales

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'As time passes I become ever more convinced that it is in the wild places that we have the best hope of finding such little sanity as survives in the world.' So wrote William Condry, the pre-eminent writer on the natural history of Wales, whose Country Diary appeared in The Guardian for over forty years and whose influence on the present generation of nature writers continues to be felt. One of those is Jim Perrin, and this volume is his selection of some of William Condry's best published work, reminding us of the attentiveness, appreciation and concern for the land which underpinned so much of Condry's work in the field, its focus local and its perspective universal. A modest and affable man, he was, as Perrin concludes in his illuminating introduction, one of the twentieth-century masters of nature writing.