For the love of the Lasd Asuralia is blessed with an abundance of wild, natural landscapes: So where the books that celebrate them?

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STEP INTO ALMOST any British bookshop and you'll find tables stacked high with nature books. Their covers are instantly recognisable: seagulls plummet from woodcut cliffs, treetops form a crown-shy canopy, a huge-eyed owl spreads its watercolour wings. They cover everything from canals to birds to islands to flowers to one single acre of Yorkshire moors. There's a competition dedicated tonature writing: the Wainwnght Prize, launched in 2014. That 'bastion' of British popular culture, The Daily Mail, even ran a poll recently to discover Britain's favou-rite nature book. That s not surprising, because Britain is where nature writing was born (in the Western world at least).