CIRCLING SKY: ON NATURE AND BELONGING (PB)

From a Wainwright Prize shortlisted author comes an exquisite blend of memoir and nature observation. In the form of several journeys, beginning in January 2019, Neil Ansell returns for solitary walks to the New Forest in Hampshire, close to where he was born. With beautiful sightings and observations of birds, trees, butterflies, insects and landscape, this is also a reflective memoir on childhood, on the history of one of the most ancient and important natural habitats in the United Kingdom, and on the Gypsies who lived there for centuries. It’s also a polemic on our collective and individual responsibility for the land and world in which we live, and how we care for it.