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The Book of Wilding
- A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small
- Narrated by: Isabella Tree
- Length: 21 hrs and 5 mins
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Important and empowering' - BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
'Get this great guide and be inspired' - STEPHEN FRY
'A handbook of hope ... Buy it, read it, start changing things right now' - JOANNA LUMLEY
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The enormity of climate change and biodiversity loss can leave us feeling overwhelmed. How can an individual ever make a difference?
Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell know firsthand how spectacularly nature can bounce back if you give it the chance. And what comes is not just wildlife in super-abundance, but solutions to the other environmental crises we face.
The Book of Wilding is a handbook for how we can all help restore nature. It is ambitious, visionary and pragmatic. The book has grown out of Isabella and Charlie’s mission to help rewild Britain, Europe and the rest of the world by sharing knowledge from their pioneering project at Knepp in Sussex. It is inspired by the requests they receive from people wanting to learn how to rewild everything from unprofitable farms, landed estates and rivers, to ponds, allotments, churchyards, urban parks, gardens, window boxes and public spaces.. The Book of Wilding has the answers.
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'Brilliantly readable and incredibly hard-working' - HUGH FEARNLEY-WHITTINGSTALL
'A deep, dazzling and indispensable guide to the most important task of all: the restoration of the living planet' - GEORGE MONBIOT
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- Anonymous User
- 31-07-23
Excellent primer for wilding!
An excellent and informative guide to all things wilding/rewilding. Highly recommended to anyone interested in giving nature a larger portion of your life again!
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- Julian Russell
- 25-05-23
A useful guide to rewilding in practice.
Full of useful advice and interesting facts and examples. A little too like a text book to be a truly exciting listen but thorough and if use to anyone thinking of rewilding a patch of land of any size.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-02-24
Everyone should read this!
Inspiring, assured and a guide to save the world. For countryside and city dwellers. Thanks
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-01-24
Essential reading for anyone who cares about our planet.
Well written visionary book about how we can restore nature. It's written from their own experiences and backed up by interesting scientific research. Very well narrated.
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- Sharon Jervis
- 09-07-23
Just brilliant
An absorbing and compelling book narrated with passion and wisdom by Isabella Tree. A true visionary in this evolving field of conservation this book is an absolute must for anyone interested in nature.
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- 28-01-24
Makes you look at the world differently
Not everyone agrees with the authors that (re-)wilding should take the form they describe, but my, they paint a compelling picture. Imagine a land of connected open places with roaming herds and flocks, the most visible sign of a fully functioning ecosystem, extending along railways and green corridors like fingers into the hearts of our cities, linking your windowbox or garden to beaver-engineered floodplains and moorlands stocked with birds, large mammals -and of course the plants, fungi, bacteria and insects supporting all of this. This is the vision they dangle, and suggest ways to manage your own hopeful project, from landscape scale to garden. It is inspiring.
I do have a conflict of interest - I read Tree's first book and went to Knepp to experience it for myself. On leaving, I found that I looked at the 'green and pleasant land' around us in dismay - monocultures of arable or intensely farmed, insecticide-ridden livestock on overgrazed pasture. It was depressing. But I have (slightly) recovered - both books make me view small corners of wilderness differently, and appreciate the neglected corners and seek out wildlife reserves for solace and hope. And they embolden one to have a go - to care enough to make a personal on-the-ground difference, and to thrust this vision of what-could-be under the noses of every decision maker, gardener and neighbour irritated by your weeds/wildflowers,
As well as sharing what they themselves learnt at Knepp, they draw powerfully on stories and projects from around the world - from the incredible projects afoot in Paris, the greenest European city Lubjana, the allotmenteer-to-customer scheme in Sweden, the elevated rewilded freight railway in New York. So many people caring, and making a difference. It didn't help inspire me in my own country, but with advocates like Tree, and books like this, the vision will spread and the change will happen. I am finally hopeful.
That'll do. You get the picture - now get the book. I'm off to watch some nettles grow.
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- Barrie Noble
- 04-04-24
The Natural World
Excellent content, very useful information and ideas from Charlie and Isabela, clearly read by Isabela Tree
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- SIL INTERNATIONAL TIM TILLINGHAST
- 24-03-24
comprehensive impressive wide ranging book on rewilding
Informed up to date practical and recognition of different approaches which nee to complement one another.
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- Dr. N. WOODRUFF
- 16-04-24
excellent review damage already done and recovery
A long read but offers ideas and opportunities for restoration as our future responsibility and goal
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- Ceri Pennington
- 19-04-24
A beautiful and inspirational book
The book is beautifully written, highlighting the many current threats to nature and biodiversity, and a range of different potential solutions on a scale from window boxes to national rewilding schemes.
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