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Nature’s Ghosts The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back

Yeo, Sophie
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780008474126
Publisert
2024-05-23
Utgiver
Vendor
HarperNorth
Vekt
540 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
159 mm
Dybde
35 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter
Yeo, Sophie

Om bidragsyterne

Sophie Yeo is a writer and journalist based in Durham, England. She has written about nature and climate change for publications including the Washington Post, the Guardian and BBC Future. She is also the founder and editor of Inkcap Journal, a publication focusing on conservation in Britain, which won the Press Gazette Newsletter of the Year award in 2022. Her first book, Nature's Ghosts, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation in 2024.

Nature’s Ghosts The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back

Yeo, Sophie
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
Yeo, Sophie
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
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Shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation ‘Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.’ Chris Packham 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 Nature’s Ghosts, 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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Shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation ‘Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.’ Chris Packham
‘Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.’ Chris Packham 'A wondrous book and a ticket for environmental time travel.' Tristan Gooley ‘Offers insights that could help shape a better informed and more constructive debate … Concludes with determination and hope.’ The Spectator 'Wonderful … Invites us to overcome our shortsightedness by peering into the distant past and using it to inform our future.' The Times 'Nature’s Ghosts underscores how people have more choices than they realize when it comes to crafting a better future.' Nature 'Elegantly written and poetic.' Science 'Urgent and utterly compelling.' Lewis Dartnell ‘Essential, intelligent reading. Sophie is one of the brightest, best-informed and most balanced contributors to the big debates.’ Patrick Barkham 'Carefully and elegantly traces the complex histories of humanity's changing relations with land and wildness. … Joyful.' Rebecca Wragg Sykes 'Beautiful and necessary: Yeo will make you see the land with new eyes.' Ben Rawlence 'Fascinating, deeply researched and breathtaking in its scope.' Guy Shrubsole 'A thrilling work of investigative writing.' Lee Schofield 'Important and inspiring.' Helen Rebanks 'Beautifully told.' Henry Mance ‘Vivid and urgent. A powerful new voice.’ Mary-Ann Ochota ‘Captivating. Enriched by luminous ideas and forward-thinking passion.’ Tiffany Francis-Baker 'A tour de force.' Benedict Macdonald 'As textured as the lost landscapes through which Yeo transports us.' Jon Dunn 'Fascinating … Thrilling.' Patrick Galbraith ‘A book of overwhelming, hopeful humanity.’ Harriet Rix 'Poignant.' Geographical Magazine ‘An exhilarating ride back and forth in time … Yeo is a fantastic writer, and marshals a huge, sweeping narrative.’ DiscoverWildlife, best wildlife and nature books of 2024
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The must-read prize-shortlisted new book on environmental history and conservation
The must-read prize-shortlisted new book on environmental history and conservation (12 b/w photographs) Sophie’s work is multi-award winning and has earned her plaudits from around the world. Sits in the same space as Thomas Halliday’s ‘Otherlands’, Guy Shrubsole’s ‘The Lost Rainforests of Britain’, and Cal Flyn’s ‘Islands of Abandonment’. Sophie has lived and worked internationally, notably in Chicago, and has written for the Washington Post, Guardian and BBC Future to name but a few. Reviews or coverage expected in New Statesman, LRB, Nature, TLS, BBC Wildlife, National Geographic, New Scientist. Contains concrete examples of how we can learn to live in harmony with our surroundings. Tackles a subject of global significance, drawing case studies from around the world Sophie founded and runs Inkcap Journal, a magazine about nature and conservation in Britain. Competition: The Lost Rainforests of Britain;Feral;Islands of Abandonment;Losing Eden;Shadowlands;The End of Nature;Otherlands;Fen, Bog and Swamp. By;Guy Shrubsole;Cal Flyn;Nick Hayes;Adam Nicolson;Isabella Tree;Patrick Barkham;Chris Packham;Lee Schofield;Charles Clover
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Shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation ‘Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.’ Chris Packham 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 Nature’s Ghosts, 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.
Les mer
Shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation ‘Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.’ Chris Packham
‘Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.’ Chris Packham 'A wondrous book and a ticket for environmental time travel.' Tristan Gooley ‘Offers insights that could help shape a better informed and more constructive debate … Concludes with determination and hope.’ The Spectator 'Wonderful … Invites us to overcome our shortsightedness by peering into the distant past and using it to inform our future.' The Times 'Nature’s Ghosts underscores how people have more choices than they realize when it comes to crafting a better future.' Nature 'Elegantly written and poetic.' Science 'Urgent and utterly compelling.' Lewis Dartnell ‘Essential, intelligent reading. Sophie is one of the brightest, best-informed and most balanced contributors to the big debates.’ Patrick Barkham 'Carefully and elegantly traces the complex histories of humanity's changing relations with land and wildness. … Joyful.' Rebecca Wragg Sykes 'Beautiful and necessary: Yeo will make you see the land with new eyes.' Ben Rawlence 'Fascinating, deeply researched and breathtaking in its scope.' Guy Shrubsole 'A thrilling work of investigative writing.' Lee Schofield 'Important and inspiring.' Helen Rebanks 'Beautifully told.' Henry Mance ‘Vivid and urgent. A powerful new voice.’ Mary-Ann Ochota ‘Captivating. Enriched by luminous ideas and forward-thinking passion.’ Tiffany Francis-Baker 'A tour de force.' Benedict Macdonald 'As textured as the lost landscapes through which Yeo transports us.' Jon Dunn 'Fascinating … Thrilling.' Patrick Galbraith ‘A book of overwhelming, hopeful humanity.’ Harriet Rix 'Poignant.' Geographical Magazine ‘An exhilarating ride back and forth in time … Yeo is a fantastic writer, and marshals a huge, sweeping narrative.’ DiscoverWildlife, best wildlife and nature books of 2024
Les mer
The must-read prize-shortlisted new book on environmental history and conservation
The must-read prize-shortlisted new book on environmental history and conservation (12 b/w photographs) Sophie’s work is multi-award winning and has earned her plaudits from around the world. Sits in the same space as Thomas Halliday’s ‘Otherlands’, Guy Shrubsole’s ‘The Lost Rainforests of Britain’, and Cal Flyn’s ‘Islands of Abandonment’. Sophie has lived and worked internationally, notably in Chicago, and has written for the Washington Post, Guardian and BBC Future to name but a few. Reviews or coverage expected in New Statesman, LRB, Nature, TLS, BBC Wildlife, National Geographic, New Scientist. Contains concrete examples of how we can learn to live in harmony with our surroundings. Tackles a subject of global significance, drawing case studies from around the world Sophie founded and runs Inkcap Journal, a magazine about nature and conservation in Britain. Competition: The Lost Rainforests of Britain;Feral;Islands of Abandonment;Losing Eden;Shadowlands;The End of Nature;Otherlands;Fen, Bog and Swamp. By;Guy Shrubsole;Cal Flyn;Nick Hayes;Adam Nicolson;Isabella Tree;Patrick Barkham;Chris Packham;Lee Schofield;Charles Clover
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780008474126
Publisert
2024-05-23
Utgiver
Vendor
HarperNorth
Vekt
540 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
159 mm
Dybde
35 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter
Yeo, Sophie

Om bidragsyterne

Sophie Yeo is a writer and journalist based in Durham, England. She has written about nature and climate change for publications including the Washington Post, the Guardian and BBC Future. She is also the founder and editor of Inkcap Journal, a publication focusing on conservation in Britain, which won the Press Gazette Newsletter of the Year award in 2022. Her first book, Nature's Ghosts, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation in 2024.

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