Four Fields

Tim Dee

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Vintage
15 September 2014

Mathematics & Sciences; The countryside, country life; The Earth: natural history general

One of the very best of the new nature writers meditates on the relationship between man and grass by looking at four real fields in four different continents

Shortlisted for the 2014 Ondaatje Prize

In his first book since the acclaimed The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Four fields spread around the world- their grasses, their hedges, their birds, their skies, and their natural and human histories. Four real fields - walkable, mappable, man-made, mowable and knowable, but also secretive, mysterious, wild, contested and changing. Four fields - the oldest and simplest and truest measure of what a man needs in life - looked at, thought about, worked in, lived with, written.

Dee's four fields, which he has known for more than twenty years, are the fen field at the bottom of his Cambridgeshire garden, a field in southern Zambia, a prairie field in Little Bighorn, Montana, USA, and a grass meadow in the exclusion zone at Chernobyl, Ukraine. Meditating on these four fields, Dee makes us look anew at where we live and how. He argues that we must attend to what we have made of the wild, to look at and think about the way we have messed things up but also to notice how we have kept going alongside nature, to listen to the conversation we have had with grass and fields.

Four Fields is a profound, lyrical book by one of Britain's very best writers about nature.

Shortlisted for the 2014 Ondaatje Prize

By: Tim Dee
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 202g
ISBN: 9780099541370
ISBN 10: 0099541378
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 15 September 2014
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tim Dee was born in Liverpool in 1961. He has worked as a BBC radio producer for more than twenty years and divides his life between Bristol and Cambridge. His first book, The Running Sky: A Birdwatching Life, was published by Cape in 2009.

Reviews for Four Fields

Heavy with poetic resonance… [Dee] pushes the boundaries of nature writing, creating a form that is lyrical but deeply alert to ecological crisis. -- Miriam Darlington * BBC Wildlife * First-rate evocation of the natural world merges with an elegiac note in these rich stories of the soil. * Independent * [Dee’s] descriptions are constantly inventive; wry and fearless… A project as expansive, and as mesmerizing, as a fenland sky. -- Mary Crockett * Scotsman * Dee’s writing is often quietly poetic, with the spirit of Gerard Manley Hopkins hovering overhead. -- Jon Day * Daily Telegraph * Four Fields is an enthralling and unexpected book – or four short books – about what we have made of the natural world. The language itself is rich and loamy. There is evidence of much thought here, as well as a naturalist's profound observation. It is proof that really, there is no such thing as ""nature writing"" – Dee gives us the wide world and everything in it, including ourselves and all our works. -- Kathleen Jamie * Guardian *