Linescapes: Remapping and Reconnecting Britain's Fragmented Wildlife - Rilegato

Warwick, Hugh

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ISBN 10: 0224100890 ISBN 13: 9780224100892

Casa editrice: Square Peg, 2017

Riassunto

Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in the Guardian

‘This is a beautifully crafted book . . . timely and essential reading’ Kathy Willis, Director of Science, Kew Gardens

It is rare to find a landscape untouched by our lines – the hedges, walls, ditches and dykes built to enclose and separate; and the green lanes, roads, canals, railways and power lines, designed to connect. This vast network of lines has transformed our landscape.

In Linescapes, Hugh Warwick unravels the far-reaching ecological consequences of the lines we have drawn: as our lives and our land were being fenced in and threaded together, so wildlife habitats have been cut into ever smaller, and increasingly unviable, fragments.

Hugh Warwick has travelled across the country to explore this linescape from the perspective of our wildlife and to understand how, with a manifesto for reconnection, we can help our flora and fauna to flourish.

Linescapes offers a fresh and bracing perspective on Britain’s countryside, one that proposes a challenge and gives ground for hope; for while nature does not tend to straight lines and discrete borders, our lines can and do contain a real potential for wildness and for wildlife.

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"In Linescapes, Hugh Warwick has written a gloriously unclassifiable book, a manifesto-adventure-exploration-reflection that manages to be political, passionate, perceptive – and very funny" (Robert Macfarlane)

"A requiem, a call to arms and a delighted amble along a hedge: a kind, wise, angry, jolly and mournful book, as rumbustiously readable as it is urgently important
" (Charles Foster, author of Being a Beast)

"Part discovery, part wonderment, both a travel narrative and a scientific exploration, Linescapes could change the way we perceive our land and its inhabitants forever" (Miriam Darlington, author of Otter Country)

"A fascinating work of landscape detection based on entirely straight journeys" (Stephen Moss, Best Nature Books of 2017 Guardian)

"Eye-opening and inspiring. Linescapes has utterly transformed my vision of the British countryside. Hugh Warwick offers a compelling primer for rethinking and rewilding our fragmented natural world." (Roman Krznaric, author of Empathy and Carpe Diem Regained)

Descrizione del libro

The UK's most passionate expert on hedgehogs on a quest to transform the way we think about roads and motorways, hedges and canals, stone walls and rail lines. This is an eye-opening exploration of the lines that cut through our countryside and a passionate manifesto for reconnection for wildlife.

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• Editore: Square Peg
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0224100890
• ISBN 13: 9780224100892
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272