WILD WOEDS: WHY WE LOVE NATURE WRITING

摘要

Anyone remotely interested in wildlife cannot have failed to have noticed that since the beginning of this centurythere has been a remarkable upsurge in the quantity and quality of literature aboutthe natural world. Alongside the more conventional scientific works - field guides, ecological studies and academic monographs - there are also hundreds of new titles of a very different style and content.All are broadly defined as 'nature writing', and while this classification might be devilishly difficult to pin down, the appetite of the book-buying public for it seems to expand annually. Publishers have been equally keento meet these demands, inspired in part by the enormous success of international bestsellers such as Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk (2014) and Amy Liptrott's The Outrun (2015).