The Edge of Silence : In Search of the Disappearing Sounds of Nature and rock pools teeming with

and rock pools teeming with life along the coast

At once Macfarlane’s most personal and most political book to date

Make a bulb lasagne for a changing display of flowers throughout spring

showing how other living beings - asters and goldenrod

nature became more than an escape: it was a life-support system

The Edge of Silence : In Search of the Disappearing Sounds of Nature and rock pools teeming withAcclaimed nature writer Neil Ansell has suffered from progressive hearing loss his whole life. As his world is becoming ever more silent, he suddenly hears something quite unexpected, the haunting call of the great northern diver. It is this extraordinary experience which makes him realise that there might still be remarkable sounds in nature within his reach, if he can only find himself in the right place at the right time. This moving book charts