'The South Country' as Edward Thomas conceived it is not a political or social entity; rather, it is defined by a particular type of landscape – chalk downland– and by the distinctive flora and fauna that inhabit it. Thomas was one of literature's great pedestrians, preferring to walk without maps, and his lyrical celebration of the region's quiet glories is itself as digressive and apparently aimless as a country walk.

Little Toller Books | Paperback 240 pp. |ISBN: 9780956254511