Cambridge University Press has recently published Modern British Nature Writing, 1789-2020: Land Lines, a book co-authored by Dr Pippa Marland, who is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department.

Written with Will Abberley, Christina Alt, David Higgins and Graham Huggan, the book grew out of the team’s AHRC-funded Land Lines nature writing project and its follow-on public engagement projects, Tracks, Traces, Trails: Nature Writing Beyond the Page and Tipping Points: Cultural Responses to Land Sharing in the North.

The book is the first full-length exploration of modern British nature writing from the late eighteenth century to the present.  It seeks to understand our contemporary fascination with nature writing, drawing on texts from Gilbert White’s monumental Natural History of Selborne to contemporary authors such as Elizabeth-Jane Burnett.  Professor Ralph Pite called it a ‘terrific’ and ‘thoroughly authoritative’ study, which ‘shows writers delighting in and responding to each other through their common goals in a changing world.

Congratulations to Pippa and the rest of the team! Find out more about the book at the Cambridge University Press website or at the Land Lines blog.