Anne Merrill reviewed Dreams of the Good Life by Richard Mabey
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3 stars
Richard Mabey is the lead writer on one of my favorite herb books, so I picked this up when I saw it cheap and used. I got a little bored with it because I didn't know the place or the books Flora Thompson wrote. It had some interesting themes: the life we present to the public vs. the life we live, the relationship between "home" and the natural world, historical changes in the ways we interact with landscapes. A perfectly fine book, just not quite for me.