pp 110 Paperback in good condition. Clean and tightly-bound. Small chip to end back cover. Slight darkening of pages and text block. This volume contains four new essays about ourselves and the natural world: The Open Garden; The Egg, the Fox and the Dagger; Efficiency and the Oil Beetle; Beetles to Betelgeuse. They are witty and provocative, the work of a countryman and a gardener who perceives that mankind has a duty to understand and cherish all species if any of us are to survive. The volume also contains the story The Windfall, which is published here in paperback for the first time and is illustrated with engravings by Kenneth Lindley. (From back cover)