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Nature's Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring It Back

Name: Nature's Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring It Back
Brand: Harpernorth
SKU: 9780008474157
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Contributors:

Sophie Yeo

Publisher:

Harpernorth

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Nature, Science

Book Subcategory:

Environmental Conservation & Protection, Ecology, Natural History

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Release Date:

2025-05-20

ISBN 13:

9780008474157

Weight:

0.54 lbs

Size:

7.83 x 5.33 x 0.61 inches

Pages:

320

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Winner of the 2024 Richard Jefferies Award for nature writingShortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on ConservationA Times Science Book of the Year

'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.

About the Author

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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