The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo…
Want to Read $ 8.99"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet here, humanity had found a rainforest and turned it into a desert. It had started long ago, no doubt: Wales' Green Desert is the product of agricultural malpractice dating back to the twelfth-century monks of Strata Florida. But what began as a profitable enterprise in medieval times today supports a mere twenty-eight farms over an area covering 46,000 acres. The farming unions claim that rewilding will lead to rural depopulation, but centuries of overgrazing have already drained the land of both people and wildlife. And in doing so, Wales is losing part of its heritage, its culture. Because the Wales of this great country's myths and legends was a rainforest nation, whose peoples lived and coexisted with the Atlantic oakwoods that once carpeted their land, celebrating them in song. They knew these rainforests and knew them deeply, weaving them into their stories, vesting their greatest heroes with a magic derived from that profound knowledge of place and ecology. There is a way back from this, but it is unlikely to come through a culture war between sheep farmers and rewilders. The truth is that there is more than enough space in Wales, as there is in the rest of Britain, both for farming to continue and for more rainforest to flourish."-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
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4.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This book explodes with wonder and delight. Making use of remarkable scientific discoveries that tr… read more
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2. The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
By: Adam Nicolson
3.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. In the sea is… read more
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"The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes."-Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
3. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
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4. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
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5. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
6. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
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Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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7. Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
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Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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8. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
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3.89
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
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9. Where the Wildflowers Grow: My Botanical Journey through Britain and Ireland
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4.34
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
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10. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
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Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
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11. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
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4.41
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
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4.45
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
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18. Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden
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19. Forget Me Not: Finding the Forgotten Species of Climate-Change Britain
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20. Cornerstones: Wild Forces That Can Change Our World
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Transform your understanding of the natural world forever and discover the wild forces that once su… read more
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21. Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
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4.02
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
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"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark
