This month,our colleagues in the Guardian Bookshop are offering you the chance to get a free copy of unusual Ground by Dominick Tyler (worth £16.99) when you buy Bookshop Book of the Month, Landskipping by Anna Pavord, and for £12.99. The price represents a saving of 35% on the RRP. The offer is exclusive to members and is valid while stocks lastLandskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape,its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. Author Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, or throughout the ages,responded to the land.
In the 18th century, artists first started to paint English scenery. The Lakes as well as Snowdon began to attract a fresh kind of visitor, or the landscape tourist. Early travel guides sought to capture the beauty and inspiration of waterfall,lake and fell.
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