Nature's Ghosts

Name: Nature's Ghosts
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Sophie Yeo
ISBN: 9780008474140

Author: Sophie Yeo

Narrator: Emily Pennant-Rea

Unabridged: 8 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperNorth

Published: 05/23/2024

Categories: Nonfiction, Nature, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Ecology, Science, Natural History, Natural Resources, Ecosystems & Habitats

Synopsis

Winner of the 2024 Richard Jefferies Award for nature writing Shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation A Times Science Book of the Year ‘Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.’ For thousands of years, humans have been the architects of the natural world. Our activities have permanently altered the environment – for good and for bad. In , award-winning journalist Sophie Yeo examines how the planet would have looked before humans scrubbed away its diversity: from landscapes carved out by megafauna to the primeval forests that emerged following the last Ice Age, and from the eagle-haunted skies of the Dark Ages to the flower-decked farms of more recent centuries. Uncovering the stories of the people who have helped to shape the landscape, she seeks out their footprints even where it seems there are none to be found. And she explores the timeworn knowledge that can help to fix our broken relationship with the earth. Along the way, Sophie encounters the environmental detectives – archaeological, cultural and ecological – reconstructing, in stunning detail, the landscapes we have lost. Today, the natural world is more vulnerable than ever; the footprints of humanity heavier than they have ever been. But, as this urgent book argues, from the ghosts of the past, we may learn how to build a more wild and ancient future.

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‘Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.’ 'A wondrous book and a ticket for environmental time travel.' ‘Offers insights that could help shape a better informed and more constructive debate … Concludes with determination and hope.’ 'Wonderful … Invites us to overcome our shortsightedness by peering into the distant past and using it to inform our future.' ' Nature Nature’s Ghosts 'Elegantly written and poetic.' 'Appealing, thoughtful and impressively researched.' 'Urgent and utterly compelling.' ‘Essential, intelligent reading. Sophie is one of the brightest, best-informed and most balanced contributors to the big debates.’ 'Carefully and elegantly traces the complex histories of humanity's changing relations with land and wildness. … Joyful.' 'Beautiful and necessary: Yeo will make you see the land with new eyes.' 'Fascinating, deeply researched and breathtaking in its scope.' 'A thrilling work of investigative writing.' 'Important and inspiring.' 'Beautifully told.' ‘Vivid and urgent. A powerful new voice.’ ‘Captivating. Enriched by luminous ideas and forward-thinking passion.’ 'A tour de force.' 'As textured as the lost landscapes through which Yeo transports us.' 'Fascinating … Thrilling.' ‘A book of overwhelming, hopeful humanity.’ 'Poignant.' ‘An exhilarating ride back and forth in time … Yeo is a fantastic writer, and marshals a huge, sweeping narrative.’