Moccas: an English deer park. The history, wildlife and management of the first parkland National Nature Reserve

With sections on the historical context, landscape, trees, flora, fauna, estate management and conservation written by leading experts, this wide-ranging account provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of a park immortalised in 1876 by Francis Kilvert: ‘I fear those grey old men of Moccas, those grey, gnarled, low-browed, knock-kneed, bowed, bent, huge, strange, long-armed, deformed, hunchbacked, misshapen, oak men’.

Edited by Paul Harding and Tom Wall

348 pages, paperback, extensively illustrated in monochrome, with contributions from leading experts:

John Bacon, Edward Blackwell, David Boddington, Francis Chester-Master, Jonathan Cooter, Stephen Daniels, Lisa Dumayne-Peaty, Andy Godfrey, Roger Key, Alan Marchant, John Phibbs, Rory Putman, Susanne Seymour, David Simpson, Helen Stace, John Thompson, Peter Thomson, Stephanie Thomson, Charles Watkins, Colin Welch, David Whitehead, Ray Woods

For details of price and availability, email Tom Wall.