Margaret Pilkington

Margaret Pilkington has a Ph.D. from the University of Reading and taught part-time at Otago University and the Open University before becoming a full-time lecturer in continuing education at the University of Sussex. Her interest in meadows grew out of using the local countryside as a laboratory for teaching science and gained particular impetus with the publication of the National Vegetation Classification system in the 1990s. Her previous book, Science in the Countryside, was published in...See more

Margaret Pilkington has a Ph.D. from the University of Reading and taught part-time at Otago University and the Open University before becoming a full-time lecturer in continuing education at the University of Sussex. Her interest in meadows grew out of using the local countryside as a laboratory for teaching science and gained particular impetus with the publication of the National Vegetation Classification system in the 1990s. Her previous book, Science in the Countryside, was published in 2005. John Pilkington has a Ph.D. in Zoology from London University, and was a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Otago University for many years. Writing this book with Margaret was an ideal outlet for the latent urge to capture the beauty of the natural world; the sympathetic reader may discern the progress he has made during the three years working on the images reproduced here. See less