The Observant Walker: Wild Food, Nature and Hidden Treasures on the Pathways of Britain

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Walking with a neighbourhood expert or a companion can bring out new objects, significances and connections along the way, Rob advises. Walking or drifting through unfamiliar parts of town, randomising your movements, and seeing how tourists view your own town are other revealing activities. Meeting faraway friends at geographic midpoints can open up new places to explore. Our museum is still receiving fragments of the Southern Cloud more than 60 years after the discovery. Meaning and remembrance It will be a family meeting for David Dimbleby, who will talk about his new book Keep Talking: A Broadcaster’s Life, because his son, Henry, himself a writer on food and the environment, will be here with co-author Jemima Lewis to talk about their new book Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape .

Warm, wise and endlessly informative, with helpful illustrations and suggested routes, 'The Observant Walker' will help you to see the world around you with new eyes: no walk will be the same again. About the Author: John Wright is a naturalist and one of Great Britain's leading experts on fungi. His most recent books include A Spotter's Guide to the Countryside and The Forager's Calendar. He lives in Dorset, where he regularly leads forays into nature and goes on long walks across all terrains. In sum, these exercises and meditations are meant to help understand what you want to care about, Rob explains. “This at its core is the art, and the joy, of noticing,” he signs off. When we go for a walk, whether in the countryside or city, we pass through landscapes full of natural beauty and curiosities both visible and invisible – but though we might admire the view, or wonder idly about the name of a flower, we rarely have the knowledge to fully engage with what we see. When we do, our sense of place is expanded, our understanding deepened and we can discover richness in even the most everyday stroll.John Wright has been leading forays around Britain for decades. As an expert forager, he shows people how to identify the edible species that abound – but he also reveals the natural history, stories and science behind our surroundings. Here, he takes us with him on eight walks: from verdant forests to wild coastlines, via city pavements, fields and rolling hills, he illuminates what can be found on a walk across any British terrain, and how you might observe and truly understand them, for yourself.Warm, wise and endlessly informative, with helpful illustrations and suggested routes, this book will help you to see the world around you with new eyes: no walk will be the same again. The Observant Walker: Wild Food, Nature and Hidden Treasures on the Pathways of Britain by John Wright – eBook Details This year’s Festival Service is being held at St Peter’s church where the Festival’s Honorary Chairman Terry Waite CBE will be preaching on the theme of freedom.

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The bestselling author of 'The Forager's Calendar' and 'A Spotter's Guide to the Countryside', John Wright, is coming to Gloucester Road to talk about his new book, 'The Observant Walker'; a guide to the food, nature and history to be found all around us when we walk.

Photographer Marco Tersigni’s latest book – in collaboration with Occupation historian Simon Hamon – focuses on rare and previously unpublished photographs from the Occupation, together with modern-day comparisons ‘from the exact spot’. The book is called Occupied Guernsey Past and Present — From the Exact Spot. Modern airline transport grapples, successfully, with a different set of safety issues. For general aviation, the lessons about weather and mountains are ongoing – and not always heeded. Jim Mollison, flying the service from Melbourne to Launceston, said, ‘weather conditions were exceptionally bad, probably the worst visual conditions I have yet experienced’.

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Such techniques improve your perception of the unusual and the mundane, and ability to detect patterns. “Art is everywhere, if you say so,” Rob explains. “ You’ll see details you missed, you’ll draw new connections, and you’ll reconsider first impressions,” he adds. 2. Sensing From business, politics and economics, Jamie Susskind will talk about his book The Digital Republic – On Freedom and Democracy in the 21 st Century and asks how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of powerful digital technologies. Jamie will talk at the Festival’s Business Breakfast.

Kingsford Smith told newspapers he believed the aircraft was in Bass Strait and the controller of civil aviation, Horace Brinsmead, told the inquiry, ‘To my mind the evidence is almost overwhelming that the pilot did get over the sea and that the accident took place between that point and reaching Point Cook.’These placed the aircraft anywhere from the Bellarine Peninsula near Geelong, to Bathurst, just as in the following century people reported MH 370 in Cambodia, Vietnam, Mauritius and Central Asia. The media is heavily represented in May. As well as the Dimblebys, Jon Snow, Susie Dent and Dan Walker, International Editor for the BBC Jeremy Bowen will talk about his new book The Making of the Modern Middle East – A Personal History. Manni Coe’s book brother.do.you.love.me started when he received this desperate message from his brother. Manni knew everything had to change. He immediately left his life in Spain and returned to England, moving his brother Reuben out of his care home and into an old farm cottage in the countryside. The book and talk will follow their journey.

There is plenty this year for the family and young people, with events like Draw with Rob, led by popular illustrator and author Rob Biddulph, and live drawing and music with Tom Percival (Milo’s Monster, Perfectly Norman, Ravi’s Roar).John Wright is a naturalist and one of Great Britain's leading experts on fungi. His most recent books include A Spotter's Guide to the Countryside and The Forager's Calendar. He lives in Dorset, where he regularly leads forays into nature and goes on long walks across all terrains. On the balance of probabilities this is what most likely happened, but other endings cannot be altogether discounted in view of the unexamined evidence on the ground. The role of localised mountain leeside turbulence in the crash is a wild card in this scenario, for example. A spin or spiral dive in IMC cannot be definitively ruled out, nor can aircraft break-up in flight, because this happened 10 days later. On 31 March 1931, a Fokker F-10 broke up over Kansas, USA, killing eight people and spurring the rejection of wooden wing aircraft by the US public and government. The investigation found moisture had weakened the Fokker’s main spar.