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The Lie of the Land: How a Tiny Group of Landowners Wrecked the Countryside, and How the Public Can Restore It

The Lie of the Land: How a Tiny Group of Landowners Wrecked the Countryside, and How the Public Can Restore It - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Guy ShrubsolePublish date:12/2/2025Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:William CollinsISBN-13:9780008651817ISBN-10:8651817UPC:9780008651817Book Category:Nature, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Ecosystems & Habitats, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Public PolicyBook Topic:Environmental PolicySize:7.84 x 5.22 x 0.83 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCG2NVPSCA

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025

A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024

'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER

'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES

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The lie of the land: that Britain's landowners care for the countryside.

Our landowning elite are paid billions of taxpayer pounds to be good stewards. But these same landowners have carelessly trampled over our best-loved landscapes, leaving the rivers polluted, fenlands drained, and moorlands burned.

Guy Shrubsole has travelled across Britain to expose the lie and meet the communities fighting back to restore our lost landscapes. This is a bold, shared vision for our nation's wild places, and how we can treat them with the awe and care they deserve.

*Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-04-30*

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS*

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE UNWIN AWARD*

Language:EnglishPublisher:William CollinsISBN-13:9780008651817ISBN-10:8651817UPC:9780008651817Book Category:Nature, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Ecosystems & Habitats, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Public PolicyBook Topic:Environmental PolicySize:7.84 x 5.22 x 0.83 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCG2NVPSCA

Guy Shrubsole is an environmental campaigner and writer. He is the author of Who Owns England?, an instant Sunday Times bestseller, and The Lost Rainforests of Britain, which won the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation and was shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society Literary Prize. For the past decade and a half Guy has campaigned on the climate and nature crises, working for a wide range of organisations from Friends of the Earth and the Right to Roam campaign, to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). He lives in Devon.


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