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ISBN: 9781681373720

Content: " An inspiring story about what happens when 3,500 acres of land, farmed for centuries, is left to return to the wild, and about the wilder, richer future a natural landscape can bring. For years Charlie Burrell and his wife, Isabella Tree, farmed Knepp Castle Estate and struggled to turn a profit. By 2000, with the farm facing bankruptcy, they decided to try something radical. They would restore Knepp's 3,500 acres to the wild. Using herds of free-roaming animals to mimic the actions of the megafauna of the past, they hoped to bring nature back to their depleted land. But what would the neighbors say, in the manicured countryside of modern England where a blade of grass out of place is considered an affront? In the face of considerable opposition the couple persisted with their experiment and soon witnessed an extraordinary change. New life flooded into Knepp, now a breeding hotspot for rare and threatened species like turtle doves, peregrine falcons, and purple emperor butterflies. The fabled English nightingale sings again. At a time of looming environmental disaster, Wilding is an inspiring story of a farm, a couple, and a community transformed. Isabella Tree's wonderful book brings together science, natural history, a fair bit of drama, and ultimately hope."

Content: Biographisches: " Isabella Tree is an award-winning author, travel writer, and manager of the the Knepp Wildland Project, together with her husband Charlie. She has contributed writing to National Geographic , Granta , The Sunday Times , and The Observer , and her articles have been chosen for The Best American Travel Writing and Reader's Digest Today's Best Non-Fiction . Tree is the author of several books, including The Living Godess and The Bird Man . She lives in England." Rezension(2): "Tess Taylor, CNN :[A] book which sustained me this year, and seeded some much-needed acreage for hope. . This is a book about ecosystem building, about imagining a more beautiful abundance, more life in our lives. It's a book about the fact that it's still possible to heal what's barren or polluted, and that maybe it would be richer, more joyful, and more possible than we imagine, if we could only just begin. . [R]ead the book, and remember again the pleasure in saying plant names, in saluting the world, in savoring it. Maybe it will plant some new little seed for you, too." Rezension(3): "Tobias Carroll, Literary Hub :[W]herever you live, there's a joy in reading Isabella Tree's detailed descriptions of the flora and fauna that arrived in her vicinity after the rewilding process began . [R]eaders . will also find an unexpected source of hope." Rezension(4): "David Suzuki:Our species now occupies most of the terrestrial parts of earth and our development projects have vast ecological repercussions. In the Anthropocene, the impact has been and continues to be catastrophic because we lack the humility to recognize we are too ignorant to 'manage' Nature. Isabella Tree's uplifting story of discovering respect and trust in Nature so she can be helped to reflourish is the paradigm shift needed to begin to rewild the planet." Rezension(5): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: July 15, 2019 Let land lie fallow, and things begin to happen. Let 3,500 acres lie fallow, and the world is remade. The lands around Knepp Castle, in the English district of West Sussex, have been farmed intensively for centuries, and the estate was exhausted and was losing money. Enter the aptly named Tree (The Living Goddess: A Journey Into the Heart of Kathmandu, 2015, etc.) and her husband, Charles Burrell. Three decades ago, they came to the land with a pronounced fondness for mycorrhizae--the invisible, microbial life that teems in healthy soil, fed by decaying plant life, sheltered by tree snags, and the like--and a commitment to do something about the declining populations of species such as the turtledove, whose numbers are an almost vertical dive thanks to the wholesale industrial remaking of the British countryside. Tree describes the long, laborious process of turning back time, abandoning deep plowing and mass production in the effort to allow the land to regain some of its former health. And how it does: As she writes, triumphantly, just one sign is the sixty-two species of bee and thirty species of wasp that now buzz around locally as well as 76 species of moths and battalions of birds, including herons that deserted their tree-top roosts in the heronry and were nesting a few feet above the water. The author writes without fear of binomials and with long asides into hard science and deep descriptions of things like soil types and the characteristics of heritage pig species, and fans of Roger Deakin, Robert Macfarlane, Nan Shepherd, and other British naturalists will follow right along. Tree describes a success that she began to chart nearly two decades ago but that has been flourishing since: The land, released from its cycle of drudgery, seemed to be breathing a sigh of relief. And as the land relaxed, so did we. A fine work of environmental literature that demands a tolerance for detail and should inspire others to follow suit. COPYRIGHT(2019) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "

Language: English

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