num_pages: 288
description: 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.Dees 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 Britains very best writers about nature.Shortlisted for the 2014 Ondaatje Prize
language: English
title: Four Fields
publisher: Jonathan Cape