Windgather Press Imprint
Windgather Press specialises in publishing accessible and attractive books on landscape history, landscape archaeology, and the history of Britain’s countryside and further afield, including garden history. The publications are designed not only for those professionally engaged in the subject, but also those with a serious amateur interest in landscape research.
The name comes from Windgather Rocks, a prominent gritstone edge on the Cheshire/Derbyshire Border, close to where the press was originally founded in Bollington. Well-known amongst climbers and walkers, the edge overlooks a landscape of seventeenth and eighteen century field-walls and scattered farms typical of the western Pennine edge.
See new and forthcoming titles below or browse our full catalogue here.
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The Ancient Yew: A HISTORY OF TAXUS BACCATA [Paperback]
Robert Bevan-Jones (Author)
Regular Price: £29.95
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9781785700781
Published by : Windgather Press
The gnarled, immutable yew tree is one of the most evocative sights in the British and Irish language, an evergreen impression of immortality, the tree that provides a living botanical link between our own landscapes and those of the distant past.... .... Learn More -
Shades of Green: An Environmental and Cultural History of Sitka Spruce [Paperback]
Ruth Tittensor (Author)
Regular Price: £29.95
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9781909686779
Published by : Windgather Press
Sitka spruce has contributed to the Pacific Coast landscapes of North America for over ten millennia. For the Tlingit First Nationit is the most important tree in terms of spiritual relationships, art, and products in daily use such as canoes, con... .... Learn More -
Offa's Dyke: Landscape & Hegemony in Eighth-Century Britain [Paperback]
Keith Ray (Author); Ian Bapty (Author)
£29.95ISBN: 9781905119356
Published by : Windgather Press
The massive ancient linear earthwork that provides the sole commemoration of an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon king and that gives its name to one of our most popular contemporary walking trails remains an enigma. Despite over a century of study, we st... .... Learn More -
The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney [Hardback]
Colin Richards (Editor); Richard Jones (Editor); Stuart Jeffrey (Other)
£35.00ISBN: 9781909686892
Published by : Windgather Press
Considering that Orkney is a group of relatively small islands lying off the northeast coast of the Scottish mainland, its wealth of Neolithic archaeology is truly extraordinary. An assortment of houses, chambered cairns, stone circles, standing s... .... Learn More -
Local Places, Global Processes: Histories of Environmental Change in Britain and Beyond [Paperback]
Peter Coates (Editor); David Moon (Editor); Paul Warde (Editor)
Regular Price: £29.95
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9781909686939
Published by : Windgather Press
We live in an age of unprecedented environmental change: global, interconnected and universal. Yet though our lives are inextricably connected to global processes, and increasingly mobile, we still live in particular places. Our perceptions of cha... .... Learn More -
Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World: History, Myth and Archaeology [Paperback]
Linda Farrar (Author)
£26.00ISBN: 9781909686854
Published by : Windgather Press
A beautifully illustrated book tracing the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the Minoans and Mycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, through Byzantine, Islamic and Persian gardens right up to the M... .... Learn More -
Dury and Andrews’ Map of Hertfordshire [Paperback]
Andrew Macnair (Author); Anne Rowe (Author); Tom Williamson (Author)
Regular Price: £35.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9781909686731
Published by : Windgather Press
This book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which was published in 1766 by two London map-makers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews. For well over two centuries, from the time of Elizabeth I to the late 18th century, the county wa... .... Learn More -
Norfolk Landscapes [Hardback]
Doug Kennedy (Author)
Regular Price: £16.99
Special Price: £4.99
ISBN: 9781909686816
Published by : Windgather Press
Norfolk is a very distinctive county, the most easterly in the British Isles. With the North Sea and The Wash to the east and north it is relatively close to the Netherlands, but Norwich is only a couple of hours by train from Lon... .... Learn More -
Arcadian Visions: Pastoral Influences on Poetry, Painting and the Design of Landscape [Hardback]
Allan R. Ruff (Author)
Regular Price: £39.95
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9781909686663
Published by : Windgather Press
This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of the landscape, as well as the implications this has had for its design and management. Today the concept of Arcadia, and way it... .... Learn More -
Trees in Towns and Cities: A History of British Urban Arboriculture [Paperback]
Mark Johnston (Author)
Regular Price: £39.95
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9781909686625
Published by : Windgather Press
This is the first book on the history of trees in Britain’s towns and cities and the people who have planted and cared for them. It is a highly readable and authoritative account of the trees in our urban landscapes from the Romans to the present ... .... Learn More
