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  • Formaat: Hardback, 336 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 240x159x31 mm, kaal: 610 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 27-Oct-2022
  • Kirjastus: William Collins
  • ISBN-10: 0008527954
  • ISBN-13: 9780008527952
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 336 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 240x159x31 mm, kaal: 610 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 27-Oct-2022
  • Kirjastus: William Collins
  • ISBN-10: 0008527954
  • ISBN-13: 9780008527952
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023



The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year





As seen on Countryfile





If anyone was born to save Britains rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole Sunday Times







Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society Literary Prize





Temperate rainforest may once have covered up to one-fifth of Britain, inspiring Celtic druids, Welsh wizards, Romantic poets, and Arthur Conan Doyles most loved creations. Though only fragments now remain, they are home to a dazzling variety of luminous life-forms.



In this awe-inspiring investigation, Guy Shrubsole travels through the Western Highlands and the Lake District, down to the rainforests of Wales, Devon, and Cornwall to map these spectacular lost worlds for the first time.



This is the extraordinary tale of one persons quest to find Britains lost rainforests and bring them back.



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

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Remarkable Shrubsole has completely changed the way many people look at the temperate woodlands that remain in parts of western Britain Financial Times



If anyone was born to save Britains rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole Sunday Times, The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year



Fascinating, lyrical A celebration of these dazzling worlds and a plea to act before they are extinguished The Times



[ The Lost Rainforests of Britain] could be a lament but instead it is suffused with the irrepressible positivity and cheerful enthusiasm of a born campaigner Patrick Barkham, Guardian



Enchanting and insightful Wonderfully evocative Geographical



Excellent Inspiring Unherd



A treasure chest full of woodland jewels, rare, precious and beautiful





Chris Packham





A magnificent and crucial book that opens our eyes to untold wonders





George Monbiot





A beautiful, lyrical and urgent book I cannot recommend it enough



Nick Hayes, author of the Sunday Times-bestselling The Book of Trespass



Utterly enchanting, transporting and spellbinding A rallying cry for restoring the rainforests of Britain urgently, and an inspiring and informative must-read for anyone interested in rewilding and ecological restoration



Lucy Jones, author of Losing Eden



Passionate, powerful, political and practicable, Guy Shrubsole gives us a blueprint for how to bring our missing rainforests back to life in all their riotous, tangled glory. Impeccably researched, convincingly argued and with generous measures of joyful discovery, this really is a spectacular book



Lee Schofield, author of Wild Fell

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A Sunday Times bestselling and award-winning journey through Britain's temperate rainforests
1 Paradise Lost
1(21)
2 Ghosts in the Landscape
22(22)
3 Trespassing Botanists & Fern Maniacs
44(25)
4 Seeing the Wood for the Trees
69(26)
5 Myth, Magic and The Mabinogion
95(28)
6 A Perfect Republic of Shepherds
123(28)
7 `Nobody Cares for the Woods Anymore'
151(23)
8 The Accidental Rainforest
174(22)
9 Forest People
196(31)
10 Bringing Back Britain's Rainforests
227(29)
11 Ghost Hunting
256(5)
Coda: If You Go Down to the Woods Today 261(3)
Acknowledgements 264(4)
List of Illustrations 268(2)
Endnotes 270(46)
Index 316
Guy Shrubsole is an environmental campaigner and writer. He is the author of Who Owns England?, an instant Sunday Times bestseller, The Lost Rainforests of Britain, which won the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation and was shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society Literary Prize, and forthcoming The Lie of the Land. 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 the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). He lives in Devon.