Cornerstones: Wild Forces That Can Change Our World
By: Benedict Macdonald
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Transform your understanding of the natural world forever and discover the wild forces that once su…
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1. Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life
By: George Monbiot
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. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
3. The Last Witch of Scotland
By: Philip Paris
3.95
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
Being a woman was her only crime. Scottish Highlands, 1727. In the aftermath of a tragic fire… read more
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4. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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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
5. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
By: Helen Czerski
4.23
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more
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6. A Village in the Third Reich
By: Julia Boyd
4.25
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more
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7. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
By: James Rebanks
4.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more
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"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
8. 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… read more
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"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 her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
9. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
By: George Monbiot
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more
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"Charity is what happens when government fails."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
10. The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
By: Ben Rawlence
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing acco… read more
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11. Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World
By: Otto English
3.76
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
A fun, authoritative and alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies eve… read more
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12. Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible
By: Simon Barnes
3.92
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost … read more
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"We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re forgetting it. We’re no longer noticing it. We’ve lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We’re beginning to think it’s not really …"-Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible
13. Rewilding the Sea
By: Charles Clover
4.23
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
'A game-changer!' - Margaret Atwood, Twitter'Desperately needed' - Isabella Tree'I doubt any more i… read more
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14. Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm
By: Lee Schofield
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 2015, England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote easter… read more
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15. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
By: George Monbiot
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but … read more
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16. Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
By: Ben Wilson
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this exhilarating look at cities, past and future, Ben Wilson proposes that, in our world of ris… read more
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"Deep underground, microbes turn half a century's worth of city waste into methane. The gases and leachate are extracted through an extensive network of subterranean pipes and then used to power 22,00…"-Ben Wilson, Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
17. Forget Me Not: Finding the Forgotten Species of Climate-Change Britain
By: Sophie Pavelle
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Join Sophie Pavelle on a low-carbon journey around Britain in search of ten animals and habitats th… read more
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18. Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.23
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
‘A formidable, brave and important book’ Robert Macfarlane Who owns England? Behind this simple q… read more
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19. Cornerstones: Wild Forces That Can Change Our World
By: Benedict Macdonald
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Transform your understanding of the natural world forever and discover the wild forces that once su… read more
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20. Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery
By: Paul Jepson
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Nature conservation in the 21st century has taken a radical new turn. Instead of conserving particu… read more
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21. Birds, Beasts and Bedlam: Turning My Farm into an Ark for Lost Species
By: Derek Gow
3.83
Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition
Birds, Beasts and Bedlam recounts the adventures of farmer-turned-rewilder Derek Gow, who is saving… read more
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"If you wish to bludgeon badgers or beavers or remove peregrine falcons and hen harrier chicks from their nests, a way can be found. If you wish, on the other hand, to restore fading species for natur…"-Derek Gow, Birds, Beasts and Bedlam: Turning My Farm into an Ark for Lost Species
