{"product_id":"next-to-nature-john-murray-classics","title":"Next to Nature (John Murray Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA year in England's green and pleasant land, from the beloved author of \u003cem\u003eAkenfield\u003c\/em\u003e — a John Murray Classics edition with a foreword by Richard Mabey.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a quarter of a century, Ronald Blythe wrote a weekly dispatch from Bottengoms Farm, the ancient yeoman's house at the end of a track in the Stour Valley where he lived alone with his cat and his books. \u003cem\u003eNext to Nature\u003c\/em\u003e gathers the best of those pieces into a single year, month by month: ploughing and harvest, church bells and hedgerows, old friends remembered and weather watched, the turning of seasons observed with a poet's eye and a countryman's patience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing much happens, and everything does. Blythe — who died at one hundred, having become the last great voice of the old English countryside — writes prose so companionable that readers ration it: a month's entries a night, all year round. The perfect bedside book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eThis edition\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Murray Classics series livery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword by \u003cstrong\u003eRichard Mabey\u003c\/strong\u003e, celebrated nature writer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePerfect for readers of\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Rebanks' \u003cem\u003eThe Shepherd's Life\u003c\/em\u003e, Robert Macfarlane, \u003cem\u003eThe Butterfly Season\u003c\/em\u003e — and anyone who needs a gentler pace once a day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRonald Blythe\u003c\/strong\u003e (1922–2023) wrote \u003cem\u003eAkenfield\u003c\/em\u003e, the classic portrait of an English village, and lived nearly all his hundred years within a few miles of where he was born.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Murray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52053022867672,"sku":"9781399840163","price":899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/1471\/6632\/files\/9781399840163.jpg?v=1785301407","url":"https:\/\/www.readersparadise.co\/products\/next-to-nature-john-murray-classics","provider":"Readers Paradise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}