{"id":5676,"count":37,"description":"Nature writing, celebrating and meditating on the non-human environment and our relationship with it, has a long literary pedigree, stretching back to the 18th<\/sup> century. Beginning there, Lucy Newlyn discusses William and Dorothy Wordsworth<\/a>, how brother and sister influenced each other\u2019s writing and their commitment to writing about the every day and the sights and sounds of their environment. Laura Dassow Walls looks at Henry David Thoreau<\/a>, an early advocate of simple living and ecology. T C Boyle chooses his best books on man and nature<\/a>, and talks about why the Dodo didn\u2019t have a chance and whether it really matters if lions, tigers and polar bears become extinct (it does).\r\n\r\nOur nature interviews cover diverse parts of the world. Sarah Wheeler talks about the polar regions<\/a>, and Michael Jacobs talks about the Andes<\/a>. Paul Brassley discusses the English countryside<\/a> and Hari Kunzru chooses his best books on the American desert<\/a>.\r\n\r\nRobert Macfarlane talks about wild places<\/a> and Sara Maitland discusses silence<\/a>. Jeremy Mynott looks at birdwatching<\/a> and David George Haskell chooses his best books on trees<\/a>.\r\n\r\nMore generally, Amy Liptrot chooses her best books on nature writing<\/a>, Charles Foster his best nature books of 2017<\/a>, 2018<\/a> and 2019<\/a>, while M G Leonard chooses her the best nature books for kids<\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/nature\/nature-writing\/","name":"Nature Writing","slug":"nature-writing","taxonomy":"category","parent":11194,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11194"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=5676"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=5676"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=5676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}