Bøger udgivet af Little Toller Books

In 1931, after two decades of wandering the world, Llewelyn Powys moved into an isolated cliff-top cottage in Dorset, where he embarked on a series of essays embracing what he called 'the poetry of life'.

In mid to late March 1913 Edward Thomas took a bicycle ride from Clapham to the Quantock Hills. The poet recorded his journey; In Pursuit of Spring was published in 1914. One of his most important works, it stands as an elegy for a lost world. Thomas photographed much of what he saw. The prints are now published for the very first time.

The life and work of Rena Gardiner, pre-eminent, Dorset based painter and printmaker.

Fred Kitchen's old countryman's eyes have looked upon days, at the beginning of this century, when life for the farm labourer was physically much harder then it is today. This book is his simple unvarnished record of departed glories.

Provoked by the strange, enigmatic series of paintings, Afal du Brogwyr (Black Apple of Gower), made by the artist Ceri Richards, Sinclair leaves behind the familiar, 'murky elsewheres' of his life in Hackney, carrying an envelope of B&W photos and old postcards, along with fragments of memory that neither confirm nor deny whether he belongs here.

Acclaimed poet and novelist Adam Thorpe revisits the landscape of his classic book Ulverton to explore the enduring mystery of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, which has inspired and perplexed people for generations. Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 (August 2014) Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2015

Home Country is a classic memoir by Britain's most popular nature writer.

Peopled by extraordinary characters, Love, Madness, Fishing is an unsentimental biography of growing up on the Kent/Sussex border in the 60s and 70s, told through the author's love for fishing.

Written by a woman who refused to acknowledge the social divisions that keep us apart, A Time From the World is an intimate account of a Gypsy culture that is repeatedly sensationalised, glamourised, demonised, and just plain misunderstood.

Joseph Conrad's memoir on the voyages he made in the Golden Age of Sail, a personal meditation on the sea and its meanings by one of the twentieth century's most important novelists.

Food is fundamental to life. The way we produce it is the most pressing issue of our times. In recent years, several family-run farms in the downlands of West Dorset have decided to radically change their approach to working the land.

A Love Letter from a Stray Moon reimagines the exceptional life and uncompromising art of Frida Kahlo. The inspiration for The Four Fridas production.

The author first encountered the Lake District during a boyhood camping trip to Windermere. He was overwhelmed by the freedom of the landscape and the closeness to nature he felt. It was as if he belonged here, amongst the fells, the crags and the endless horizon. This book deals with his life and work in this landscape.

A century before Charles Darwin, decades before the French Revolution, Gilbert White began his lifelong habit of measuring and observing the world around his Hampshire home.

"First published in 1940 by J.M. Dent & Sons"--Title page verso.

The Military Orchid is a comic masterpiece - a blend of botany, memoir and satire; the story of Jocelyn Brooke's obsession with one flower - the Orchis Militaris, the military orchid.

Kenneth Allsop, a famous television presenter and literary man-about-town, left London and settled in ancient forests and chalk streams of west Dorset. In this book his writings speaks in defense of the natural world and stands firmly against the unchecked exploitation of the land.

Set in Kent, the author returns to those trees of his youth to breath life into the changing character of a single woodland year. He reveals how precious they are to the English countryside.

Unhappily land-locked in his early adult life, the authors' fortunes changed when he began visiting Scotland's west coast in the 1930s. He made temporary homes with his family on some of the remotest Hebridean islands so he could study the habits of grey seals and seabirds. This book tells about his life on island.

Traces the course of a spring which rises on an Iron Age hillfort and gradually broadens into a brook, flows through a nearby village and hamlet, skirts a solitary farmhouse and its orchard, before draining into water meadows and a lake where the wildfowl nest. This book presents the details of this ancient landscape, its people and the habitats.

First published: London, Architectural Press, 1951.

The pubs of London in the years before the Second World War.

When the author settled on Skokholm, an uninhabited island off the Pembrokeshire coast, he was 24 years old. It was a boyhood dream to be with birds and flowers in some remote place', to live like Robinson Crusoe. But when war broke out in September 1939, this dream island life had to be abandoned.

Through the story of one man, Caleb Bawcombe, a shepherd whose flocks graze the Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset borders, this title features men and women of humble birth - poachers, gypsies, farmers and laborers - striving to survive on the land.

W.G. Hoskins was one of the most original and influential historians of the 20th century. He realized that landscapes are the richest record we have of the past, and with his masterpiece, The Making of the English Landscape, he changed forever how we experience the places we live and work.

Clare Leighton was one of the finest engravers of the twentieth century. This is the story of the garden she carved from meadowland deep in the Chiltern Hills in the 1930s.

Richard Mabey reveals the astonishingly rich world of animal and plant life surviving and often thriving among docklands, railways, factories and canals.

Salar the salmon's migration through the rivers of Devon - surviving porpoises, seals, nets, fishermen, otters, poachers & weirs - is one of nature's great journeys. Intense, brilliantly imagined, the salmon's perilous return leaves us with a vivid, unsentimental picture of how both people & wildlife rely on a river & its estuary.

Adrian Bell's travels through East Anglia and lowland Britain capture the character of the countryside before modern agriculture altered the landscape and changed forever the way we eat and live.