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  • A Gleaming Landscape: A Hundred Years of the Guardian's Country Diary
  • Ed. Martin Wainwright
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About the Book

In 2006, the Guardian's much-loved Country Diary column is a hundred years old, and to commemorate the anniversary Martin Wainwright, the Guardian's Northern Editor and also the editor of A Gleaming Landscape (Guardian Books) has compiled a collection of the best of a century's writing.

This collection covers the landscape of the whole of the United Kingdom, from Wales to Northern Ireland, Scotland to Norfolk.

The Country Diary column has consistently attracted some of Britain's best writers on natural history and the countryside: Jim Perrin the mountaineering writer, whose biography of Don Whillans won the Boardman-Tasker Award, writes the dispatches from Snowdonia; Mark Cocker, author of the bestselling Birds Britannica, writes the Country Diary from Norfolk. There are also diaries written by a leading Suffragette, one of Rupert Brooke's mistresses, and even one of the Guardian's printers who stepped in at the last minute when the copy he was waiting for had not been filed!

Adding his own insightful and fascinating commentary throughout, Martin Wainwright has found diaries to reflect the changing of the countryside over a hundred years: from the prevalence of owls in First World War trenches full of vermin, to the plant surveys of Second World War bombsites.