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At the heart of ‘Is a River Alive?’ is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings, who should be recognised as such in both imagination and law. Macfarlane takes the reader on a mind-expanding global journey into the history, futures, people and places of the ancient, urgent concept. Around the world, rivers are dying from pollution, drought and damming. But a powerful movement is also underway to recognize the lives and the rights of rivers, and to re-animate our relationships with these vast, mysterious presences whose landscapes we share. The young ‘rights of nature’ movement has lit up activists, artists, law-makers and politicians across six continents – and become the focus for revolutionary thinking about rivers in particular.
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Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2024 for Nature Writing ????? The Telegraph ‘One of the most remarkable figures in British conservation.’ The Observer ‘There have been several books on the fate of British wolves, but this is the best.’ The Spectator ‘Beautifully crafted, fascinating and unbearably poignant, I totally loved this book.’ Isabella Tree, author of Wilding ‘A dazzling romp through the turbulent history of wolves in Britain.’ Lee Schofield, author of Wild Fell ‘Gow’s anecdotes will leave you howling – and his historical detective work to track down the shadow of the wolf is as gripping as any thriller.’ Guy Shrubsole, author of The Lost Rainforests of Britain ‘Gow reinvents what it means to be a guardian of the countryside.’ Guardian Author of Bringing Back the Beaver and Britain’s favourite maverick rewilder Derek Gow em
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The perfect gift for nature lovers and weather watchers.
A fascinating month-by-month collection of facts, figures and explanations related to UK weather. Discover historical facts, notable weather events, amazing statistics and stories that will keep you informed all year round.
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£22.00
A revolutionary account of Earth as a living organism – a finely-tuned planetary network made up of all living and non-living things – which provides an unusual degree of hope for its future.
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Sunday Times Bestseller
‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles Foster
Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September)
Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings?
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From the internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees
An illuminating manifesto on ancient forests: how they adapt to climate change by passing their wisdom through generations, and why our future lies in protecting them.
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The perfect gift for nature lovers and weather watchers.
A fascinating month-by-month collection of facts, figures and explanations related to UK weather with details of famous meteorologists and their influence. Discover historical facts, notable weather events, amazing statistics and stories that will keep you informed all year round.
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The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave.
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The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year
‘If anyone was born to save Britain’s rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole’ Sunday Times
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‘A funny and beautifully written welcome to the enigmatic, weird and wonderful world of wasps’ DAVE GOULSON, author of SILENT EARTH
There may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp, and none guarding so many undiscovered wonders.
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What would it be like to visit the ancient landscapes of the past? To experience the Jurassic or Cambrian worlds, to wander among these other lands, as creatures extinct for millions of years roam? In this mesmerizing debut, the award-winning palaeontologist Thomas Halliday gives us a breath-taking up close encounter with worlds that are normally unimaginably distant. Journeying backwards in time from the most recent Ice Age to the dawn of complex life itself, and across all seven continents, Halliday immerses us in a series of extinct ecosystems, each one rendered with a novelist’s eye for detail and drama.
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‘A treasure chest full of woodland jewels, rare, precious and beautiful’
Chris Packham
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgotten rainforests – and an inspiring intervention to help restore them to the places they once were
