Books about landscape

671 books in our catalogue · showing 625–671

Books where the land itself is the subject: how a valley, coastline or moor was shaped, who has lived and worked on it, and what it is like to move across it. This shelf mixes nature writing, place-based memoir and natural history with the guidebooks that help you walk the ground.

If you like writing that looks hard at one stretch of country, start with the most recent titles, then follow an author you enjoy. Related shelves: Wilderness, Mountains and Books by place.

Writing on landscape

Powder Days

Heather Hansman

Saltwater in the Blood

Easkey Britton

Blue Highways

William Least Heat-Moon

A Life on Our Planet

David Attenborough

The Peregrine

J. A. Baker

Walking Home

Simon Armitage

Trelawny’s Cornwall

Petroc Trelawny

New Europe

Michael Palin

On the Slow Train Again

Michael Williams

Journey into Cyprus

Colin Thubron

My Scotland

Val McDermid

Sahara

Michael Palin

Landmarks

Robert Macfarlane

The Italians

John Hooper

The Nile

Toby Wilkinson

Raw Spirit

Iain Banks

Riding Route 66

Henry Cole

Icons of England

Bill Bryson

Kingdom by the Sea

Paul Theroux

Toujours Provence

Peter Mayle

Dark, Salt, Clear

Lamorna Ash

Rural Rides

William Cobbett

The North Road

Rob Cowen

Clarissa's England

Clarissa Dickson Wright

Hidden Nature

Alys Fowler

The Marsh Arabs

Wilfred Thesiger

In Siberia

Colin Thubron

Becoming a Mountain

Stephen Alter

Parisians

Graham Robb

A House in Sicily

Daphne Phelps

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