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Wild Woman: Empowering Stories from Women who Work in Nature [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 256 pages, kõrgus x laius: 198x129 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 11-Sep-2025
  • Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Wildlife
  • ISBN-10: 139940086X
  • ISBN-13: 9781399400862
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 256 pages, kõrgus x laius: 198x129 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 11-Sep-2025
  • Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Wildlife
  • ISBN-10: 139940086X
  • ISBN-13: 9781399400862
An engaging blend of conservation stories and humorous, personal anecdotes from Philippa Forrester about women who choose to live and work in the wild.

An engaging blend of conservation stories and humorous, personal anecdotes from Philippa Forrester about women who, like her, choose to live and work in the wild.

Surviving in the wilderness has long been associated with men, and conservation and environmental biology have traditionally been male-dominated subjects. Yet many remarkable women also choose to live and work in wild and challenging landscapes.

In Wild Woman, Philippa Forrester considers the grit and determination required for women to maintain connections to wildlife and shares stories of female conservation heroes and other extraordinary wild women working in nature.

Talking to women from around the world, Philippa studies and celebrates what it means to be a wild woman. From the sixteenth-century botanist who was the first woman to circumnavigate the globe to modern-day women responding to bear attacks in Yellowstone, working to rewild reserves in South Africa, photographing Caribou in the Arctic and more, Philippa examines how these women benefit from a life spent in the wilderness and also considers what the natural world gains from them.

Relating some of her own experiences from three decades spent travelling around the world and working in some of the wildest places on Earth, Philippa asks: what does it take for a woman to live or work in the wild?

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Forresters research takes her around the world as she records anecdotes of daring, discovery and danger. * Sunday Express * Part memoir, part exploration of womens relationship with nature and part studies of other women who, like [ Philippa], have chosen to work in the male-dominated fields of conservation. * The Times * Deeply personal and poignant. * BBC Countryfile * How beautiful...I love the premise of the book. * Fearne Cotton, TV and radio presenter * After years of child-rearing and being wifely, Philippa Forrester emerges with a lot of pertinent questions. Wild Woman is a piercing, funny, self-deprecating answer to what it is to be wild. Locally, globally, diverse and female, it is full of a lifetime's awe and wise. This delightfully brilliant, sometimes rightfully angry book, puts women where they should be: at the heart of conservation, knowing what it is to be wild, to tune in, mend and support the natural world and our place in it. I am cheering her, and all these wonderful women on! * Nicola Chester, author of On Gallows Down * A powerful testament to why women must have a greater say when conserving our natural world. * Mike Dilger, naturalist and broadcaster * Wild Woman is a timely reminder of the feminine energy behind some groundbreaking successes in global wildlife conservation.Through deeply personal experiences, Philippa shows us with spirit and gusto that the natural world is a source of strength, wisdom, humour and comfort. * Sophie Pavelle, author of Forget Me Not *

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An engaging blend of conservation stories and humorous, personal anecdotes from Philippa Forrester about women who choose to live and work in the wild.
Prologue: A Tsunami of the Soul

Chapter 1: The True Power of a Machete
Chapter 2: What Really is a Wild Woman, then?
Chapter 3: Memories Scrambled Brain Anyone?
Chapter 4: Spekboom to Rebloom
Chapter 5: What I Can Do
Chapter 6: Perseverance
Chapter 7: The Groundwork
Chapter 8: Clearing the Way
Chapter 9: Woodswoman
Chapter 10: It isn't Just Tree Hugging
Chapter 11: A Visit to the Zoo
Chapter 12: Decades On
Chapter 13: Looking Back Again
Chapter 14: A Rewrite?
Chapter 15: A Fascination for Plants
Chapter 16: Knowing My Place
Chapter 17: Surviving Motherhood
Chapter 18: When Doing What it Takes Doesn't Work
Chapter 19: I Don't Believe in Signs
Chapter 20: Creation
Chapter 21: From Stick to Chick
Chapter 22: This Place is Buzzing
Chapter 23: Out of the Depths
Chapter 24: An Enduring Theme
Chapter 25: Acceptance
Chapter 26: Letting Go
Chapter 27: The Killer Menopause
Chapter 28: A State of Awe

Epilogue: Hugging the Bloody Tree

Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
Philippa Forrester is a well-known TV and radio presenter who has written and produced several award-winning nature documentaries. For six years, Philippa lived and worked in Wyoming encountering wolves, grizzly bears, moose and the odd cowboy. Since returning to the UK, she is rediscovering her own patch of wilderness, especially her favourite wild animal: otters.