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THE BOOK THE WORM FORGIVES THE PLOUGH John Stewart Collis (Vintage Classics, Pounds 8.99) First published in the Forties, this is the pioneer ecologist's memoir of working on the land as part of the war effort, toiling as a farm labourer in Sussex and Dorset then singlehandedly thinning out a 14-acre ash wood near Iwerne Minster. It's been reprinted thanks to interest in new naturalist writers. In his introduction, Robert Macfarlane locates Collis in the line of "male manual mystics" and points out the book's timeliness..
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