Mabey, Richard Thomas

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MABEY, Richard Thomas

MABEY, Richard Thomas. British, b. 1941. Genres: Education, Environmental sciences/Ecology, Natural history. Career: Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Dacorum College of Further Education, Hemel Hempstead, Herts., 1963-65; Sr. Ed., Penguin Books Educational Division, 1966-73; Director, Common Ground, 1988-. Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 1983-84, 1993. Member, Nature Conservancy Council, 1982-86; Advisory Board Member, Plant Life, 1990-. Publications: Behind the Scene, 1968; The Pop Process, 1969; Children in Primary School, 1972; Food, 1972; Food for Free, 1972; The Unofficial Countryside, 1973; The Pollution Handbook, 1974; The Roadside Wildlife Book, 1974; Street Flowers, 1976; The Flowering of Britain, 1980; The Common Ground, 1980; Back to the Roots, 1983; Oak and Company, 1983; Cold Comforts, 1983; In a Green Shade, 1983; The Frampton Flora, 1985; Gilbert White, 1986; The Flowering of Kew, 1988; Home Country, 1990; A Nature Journal, 1991; Whistling in the Dark, 1993; The Wild Wood, 1993; Landlocked, 1994; Flora Britannica, 1996; Collected Writings, 1999. EDITOR: Class, 1967; The Natural History of Selborne, 1977; Landscape with Figures, 1983; Second Nature, 1984; The Oxford Book of Nature Writing, 1995. Address: c/o Sheil Land Assoc, 43 Doughty St, London WC1N 2LF, England.