Four Fields

Name: Four Fields
Brand: Vintage Publishing

Vintage Publishing

Four FieldsAuthor(s): Tim Dee\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Vintage\nISBN-13: 9780099541370, 978-0099541370\nSynopsis\nIn 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.\n\nDees 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 e