Down the Combe and Into the Meadow Reflections on Nature and Learning David Selby (paperback edition)

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About the Book

Written in an engaging diary style, the month-by-month chapters initially focus on the natural history of an East Devon coastal valley before stretching out to consider a significant nature-related issue and its wider implications for our living and learning. Issues addressed include human disconnect from the natural world, climate breakdown, rewilding, biodiversity loss and confronting environmental despair.
The book contains 138 stunning photographs of landscape, flora and fauna, including 51 images by award-winning nature photographer David White.

About the Author

David Selby is Founding Director of Sustainability Frontiers, an organization that works for UN and other international bodies on climate change education. He previously held professorships in global and sustainability education at the Universities of Toronto and Plymouth. He has written extensively on the subject of education and the environment, sustainability and climate change throughout a long professional and academic career.

Praise for Down the Combe and Into the Meadow

‘This foray into nature learning is a welcome contribution to understanding the wicked, complex polycrises facing humanity. David Selby’s work is always mind-opening, mind-bending and highly recommended reading.’
Sue McGregor,
author of Transformative Practice and Consumer Moral Leadership
‘David Selby has written a detailed nature study that opens to the human condition.’
Alastair McIntosh,
author of Soil and Soul and Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition