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The New Nature Writing – Granta 102

For as long as people have been writing, they have been writing about nature. But economic migration, overpopulation and climate change are transforming the natural world into something unfamiliar. As our conception and experience of nature changes, so too does the way we write about it. The New Nature Writing – Granta 102 includes:Jonathan Raban on the road in the American WestKathleen Jamie dissects a human colonMatthew Power squatting in the BronxPaul Farley and Niall Griffiths on escaping the inner cityEdward Platt inside Israel’™s ‘˜bird plague zones’™Robert Macfarlane and Justin Partyka ghost-hunting in the FensRichard Mabey in search of the Fortingall YewBenjamin Kunkel on dropping out in ColoradoPhilip Marsden on the mystery of Cornwall’™s ancient stones