"A warm and welcoming almanack full of fascinating facts, tips, recipes, and suggestions for anyone wanting to connect to the natural world around us. "
Simply gorgeous, I felt as though I was meeting a new friend in this book. If you want to be more in touch with nature or love to live with each season, if you feel the need to nurture or feel at home when crafting and cooking, then this beautifully designed almanac is calling for you. Melinda Salisbury, best-selling and Carnegie-nominated author speaks to the very soul of those wanting to join the circle of nature and life in a more connected way. This is her second almanack (my first), and in her introduction she explains that when she realised that her love of spending time outside and curiosity about nature were no longer part of her identity she decided to make changes. She then wanted to write a modern almanac: “for people who wanted to connect, or reconnect, with nature but still live 21st-century lives”. And so she doesn’t ignore phones, she encourages home-made indulgent treats, suggests the nature you can watch using webcams, and even has a book club section. Most importantly she helps you to immerse yourself in the outdoors, in the nature that surrounds us, even if you live in a city. The almanac is divided of course into the months of the year, I love the sections where she describes what you will see when you look up into the skies, what you can buy and cook that is in season, and how you can care for yourself while feeding back into the natural cycle. The beauty is that it doesn’t feel too difficult, it feels as though you can easily step into a new, more connected you. I felt as though the book was speaking directly to me and I know I will be using this little treasure to futher appreciate our natural world. The Way Back Almanac for 2023 is wonderfully inclusive and would make a perfect gift for others, and perhaps most importantly, for yourself.
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The Way Back Almanac, the first almanac designed for modern city-dwellers, returns in 2023!
The traditional almanac is a month-by-month prompt to the transformations of nature that offer a magical and poetic way to celebrate the year. The Way Back Almanac is a modern twist on the conventional almanac, an accessible and truly contemporary guide back to natural rhythms, designed for those who feel most removed from the old ways and cycles.
Beautifully illustrated throughout, each month includes sections on stargazing, gardening tips, seasonal vegan recipes, home organization or crafting ideas, digital wellbeing practices, rituals, book club reads, folklore or ancient wisdom as told by modern people from different walks of life, and free space for your own writing, notes or recipes.
- Harvest your own home-grown micro greens, windowsill radishes or rooftop carrots.
- Celebrate seasonal citrus with Piña Colada Bars or relieve the heat of midsummer with Lithuanian beetroot gazpacho.
- Sew your own foraging pouch for May-time foraging or make a bee bath for thirsty July bees.
- Create a phone photo journal of your favourite patch of local green.
- Make your own Wake-Up Shower Fizzers or May Day Dew Face Wash.
- Watch the 120-meteor-per-hour Geminid Shower to see out the year in Way Back style.
This interactive and treasured item will gently encourage creativity, fulfillment and ultimately a way back to yourself.
The Way Back Almanac 2023 features in the following genres: Nature and the natural world: general interest, Star Books, Gift Books, Health & Fitness, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, Mind, body, spirit, Self Help and Personal Development, Complementary therapies, healing and health, Nature therapy, Stationery and miscellaneous items, Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs, Vegan Cookery and veganism, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology), Arts and Crafts, Recommendations, Reference works, Encyclopaedias and reference works, Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects, Vegetarian Cookery and vegetarianism, Cookery, Food and Drink, Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, Society and culture: general, Society and Social Sciences, Styles (A), Style qualifiers, Non-Fiction Books of the Month
The Way Back Almanac 2023 is available in Hardback
The Way Back Almanac 2023 was written by Melinda Salisbury and published by Watkins Publishing an imprint of Watkins Media
The Way Back Almanac 2023 has 288 pages
£11.69
