The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an Ancient Forest

From a 2018 Wainwright Prize shortlisted author, THE CIRCLING SKY is part childhood memoir, blended with exquisite nature observation, and the story of one man's journey over a year to one of the UK's key natural habitats, the New Forest of Hampshire

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 - and were subsequently expelled to neighbouring cities. It is also part polemic on our collective and individual responsibility for the land and world in which we live, and how we care for it.

'Neil Ansell is a wonderful guide... this is a delight of nature writing' Choice Magazine

Author: Neil Ansell
Publisher: Tinder Press
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781472272379
ISBN10: 1472272374
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Nature | General
- Travel | Special Interest | Hikes & Walks

About the Author
Neil Ansell was an award-winning television journalist with the BBC and a long standing newspaper journalist. He is the author of Deep Country, Deer Island and The Last Wilderness which was shortlisted for the 2018 Wainwright Golden Beer and Highland Book Prizes. He has two daughters and lives in Brighton