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Welcome to The Wild Library. I’m Hannah James, a journalist, writer and editor wandering along the edges where nature and culture meet. Here’s where I read and review nature writing - let’s build a wild library together. Sign up now so you don’t miss an issue.

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What happens when lone enraptured males are banished and women speak up about nature? I'm reading Katharine Norbury's Women on Nature.

Oct 1, 2021

I get grumpy about European seasons and read Richard Mabey's biography of Gilbert White

Sep 3, 2021

Reading The Salt Path and cooking through lockdown. Again.

Aug 6, 2021

I'm reading Catherine Raven's The Fox & I

Jun 4, 2021

Reading Christopher Neve's Unquiet Landscape

May 21, 2021

Reading Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces

May 7, 2021

Reading Sarah Orne Jewett for the first time

Apr 15, 2021

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