A Field Guide to Larking
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Overview
A Field Guide to Larking is a practical, interactive and inspiring guide to ‘larking’ from the bestselling author of Mudlarking.
LARK (verb): to get out and about, to explore the world around us and to discover the little treasures hiding in plain sight.
We think, of course, of mudlarking but there is also beachlarking, fieldlarking or even simply exploring your own home with fresh eyes.
In this beautiful field guide, Lara teaches us how to lark for ourselves. There are maps and charts, tips and lists, and colour illustrations throughout to help identify finds. From tide tables for mudlarkers to a flint guide for fieldlarkers, this book is richly informative and yet small enough to pop in a pocket. Like a journal it invites you to interact – to make notes and record finds along the way.
If Lara Maiklem’s first book was a glimpse into a hidden world, with this field guide she shows us how we can discover it for ourselves.
From the bestselling author of Mudlarking, a practical, interactive and inspiring guide to ’larking’, be it mudlarking, beachlarking or simply the thrill of exploring your own home with fresh eyes.
With a combined audience of over 100,000 followers, Lara has the largest online following of any mudlark. Known as the London Mudlark, she has so far been featured on BBC News, BBC World Service and the Guardian.
As well as appealing to the Mudlarking audience who read literary nature authors like Robert Macfarlane, Underland (61k TCM), and Roger Deakin, Wildwood (124k TCM), this covetable book will also appeal to fans of The Almanac series (120k TCM, 3 books)
This is the practical companion to the top-two Sunday Times bestselling Mudlarking (34k TCM), which received critical acclaim as a Book of the Week on Radio 4 and an Observer Book of the Year
This beautifully designed handbook has a journal-like flexibind cover and colour illustrations throughout alongside practical line drawings to help identify finds
A Field Guide to Larking is a timely book that encourages us to slow down, be mindful of our environment, and pay attention to detail
Enchanting ... In fact, I am quite tempted to join Maiklem on the riverbed looking for treasure
There is a great deal to learn from these pages, not least the insight that finding lost things is the best way of losing yourself
Brilliant. No one has looked at these odd corners since Sherlock Holmes
A lovely, lyrical, gently meandering book, filled with fascinating diversions and detail
- Title: A Field Guide to Larking
- Author: Lara Maiklem
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781526634238, 9781526634214, 152663421X, 1526634236
- Resource ID: LLS:9781526634238
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T11:54:21Z