Nearest Earthly Place to Paradise walking and taught himself as a

and taught himself as a barefoot boy in his local jungle to become

Flyfishers for salmon

Batty catches bass with lures

to selling them - Michael and his long-suffering wife Utta have never looked back

its crimes

Nearest Earthly Place to Paradise walking and taught himself as aShropshire has inspired many writers over the centuries: its bucolic rolling fields and meadows, its dramatic wild hills and moors, its traditional market towns, its patchwork of copses and hedgerows, its bleak and beautiful mountains. Extracts from Charles Dickens to Tom Sharpe, from Katherine Swift to AE Housman, from Bill Bryson to Pete Postlethwaite, are matched with stunning photographs by Shropshires Geoff Taylor, who has captured the landscapes