David Selby’s new book, Down the Combe and Into the Meadow: Reflections on Nature and Learning (Blue Poppy Publishing, 2024) is being being very warmly and very enthusiastically received by reviewers.
In a review article in Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review, sustainability educator Anne Dolan writes: ‘This book makes a powerfully significant case for conservation and restoration of the natural world. This beautiful book, enhanced by folded artist drawn maps, is a treasure trove for nature lovers as well essential reading for teachers and students of environmental topics. As an educator, I look forward to sharing this book with students in an effort to celebrate local place ‘through attentive, multi-sensorial and immersive engagement with local nature’. This is a must read for all those interested in nature. As a reviewer I cannot adequately convey the captivating attention to detail and wonder of nature which lies between the covers of this wonderful publication.
For Anne’s full review, click here.
In a review article appearing in both the journal and website of the National Association of Environmental Education, sustainability and transformative educator, Sue McGregor, writes: ‘I highly recommend this book. David frequently expresses his outside-the-box, mind-opening and mind-bending ideas using parables, puns, metaphors, folklore, poetry and allegories. This book does not disappoint. As with all David’s work, there is ‘some shaking of the foundations of sustainability education in these pages, some deep-rooted questioning of givens and of the taken-for-granted’. He provides a convincing and engaging example of the power of nature learning, of immersing oneself in nature and then extracting pedagogical and social change ideas to future proof the world.
For Sue’s full review, click here.
To order a copy of Down the Combe online, click here.