Nature Tales for Winter Nights

Edited by Nancy Campbell

Nature Tales for Winter Nights is a treasure trove of tales and tellers from across the natural world that puts winter – rural, wild and urban – under the microscope and draws us in close.

From the late days of autumn, through deepest cold, and towards the bright hope of spring, arctic traveller and poet Nancy Campbell brings together a community of familiar names and dazzling new discoveries. Here are Innuit legends, Beth Chatto’s garden and Tove Jansson’s ‘The Iceberg’; artists’ private letters, Anne Frank’s diary and fireside-stories told by indigenous voices. Join the naturalist Linneaus travelling on horseback in Lapland, frost fairs on the Thames and witchhazel harvesting in Connecticut, experience Alpine adventure, polar bird myths and courtship in the snow in classical Japan and Ancient Rome.

A hibernation companion, this book will transport you across time and country, bringing a little magic and wonder to every winter night.

Pub date: 12 October 2023

Price: £16.99

ISBN: 9781783967421 epub: 9781783967438

Genre: Nature Writing / Gift

Format: Hardback

Dimensions: 216x135 mm

Extent: 272 pages

Rights: World

Nancy Campbell is a poet and non-fiction writer whose books include Thunderstone, Fifty Words for Snow, a Waterstones Book of the Month, The Library of Ice, Disko Bay and How to Say ‘I Love You’ in Greenlandic. She was appointed Canal Laureate in 2018, writing poems for installation across the UK waterways from London Docklands to the River Severn, and received the Ness Award from the Royal Geographical Society in 2020. She is currently Visiting Professor of Literature at the Free University, Berlin.