The Farm, Richard Benson

Rural Rides, William Cobbett

The Worm Forgives the Plough, John Stewart Collis

At Home in the Hills (sense of place in the scottish borders), John N. Gray

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Walter Evans (photographs) and James Agee

The Claude Glass, Tom Bullough


also contemporary nature (and sometimes travel) writing:

Nature Cure by Richard Mabey

Kathleen Jamie, Robert MacFarlane, Roger Deakin