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Back to Nature

How to Love Life – and Save It

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Back to Nature

By: Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin
Narrated by: Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin
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About this listen

 Optimistic field notes from the new normal for nature

One thing has become clear this year - we need nature more than ever. And although the natural world has never been more under pressure, there are still reasons to be hopeful.

Through personal stories, conservation breakthroughs and fascinating scientific discoveries, Back to Nature captures the essence of how we feel about the wildlife outside our windows. From the resurgence of storks in Britain to lesser horseshoe bats returning to the Isle of Man, to what we can do to encourage wildlife into our own spaces, whether that's a woodland, a garden, a balcony or our streets, it explores the wonder and the solace of nature, and the ways in which we can connect with it.

(P) 2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd©2020 Hachette Children's Group Animals Biological Sciences Outdoors & Nature Science Inspiring Heartfelt

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Critic reviews

Well-researched and more nuanced than you might expect... And so Back to Nature is also an invitation to take action, showing how ordinary people can become activists.
The main text is scattered with sparkling jewels of fascinating science on everything from how trees communicate to what birds dream of when they sleep. There are some truly inspiring tales... Rousing, polemical and heartfelt, Back to Nature is not afraid to challenge the status quo and it will fill you with a determination to take action.
Engaged, resolute and convincing... this could also be the most important book you've read in a long time.
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Loved it, really insightful look at our relationship with nature, especially over the last year when so many of us have felt more grateful for it than ever.

Rattled through it!

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this was a hard to listen to book, quite depressing about human nature. it was very challenging and inspiring too with lots of fascinating facts

powerful and disturbing book

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a very honest and frank book detailing the current plight facing our wildlife and the plant. I just hope people not only read it but act as well.

a must read for all before its to late

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Beautifully read by the 2 authors. I cried, felt despondent, despairing and yet ever hopeful.
This book will spark you into taking action as you have your eyes opened to what has been lost in the natural world and learn about the greed and corruption that supports its destruction.
Thank you for writing this. With a no holds barred approach, you both truly have informed us what we, the ordinary people can do to rewild our environment and help save our natural world. What a motivating listen.

Motivating, informing and inspiring

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Makes you want to do more and it did to me. I put a pond in my garden half way through listening.

Great listen

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