The Unofficial Countryside

Richard Mabey’s discovery of nature in the most unexpected places: city docks, overgrown bomb sites, car parks and canals. The Unofficial Countryside shows us new ways of experiencing the natural world. During the early 1970s Richard Mabey explored crumbling city docks and overgrown bomb-sites, navigated inner city canals and car parks, and discovered there was scarcely a nook in our urban landscape incapable of supporting life. The Unofficial Countryside is a timely reminder of how nature flourishes against the odds, surviving in the most obscure and surprising places.