A unique, all-encompassing view of rural Britain, based on the celebrated, long-running BBC TV series. This beautifully illustrated book provides a month-by-month guide to everything that is happening in the natural world around us. Not only do we discover the most interesting birds, wild flowers or trees at any given time, we also find out what is happening in the fields, or on the shore, or in the rivers and lakes throughout the year. This gives us a complete understanding of the mechanics of the modern British countryside - from two-crop rotation of potatoes to the flooding...