THE LIBRARY

How many times have you been down to the seashore and picked through the flotsam and jetsam at the tideline? Or foraged through the undergrowth in the woods, or sifted through the pebbles at a cliff face? What did you find and what did you think about it?

Perhaps there was a mermaid’s purse, the skull of an unidentified animal, a sparkling geode, a fossil or a strange seed casing. Nature always has something interesting and unknown for us to discover, even as adults in an environment that we’re intimately familiar with, and best-selling nature