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Nature’s Ghosts

The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back
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What history can teach us about how to avoid ecological catastrophe For thousands of years, humans have been the architects of the natural world. Our activities have permanently altered the environment – for good and for bad. Nature’s Ghosts examines how the planet would have looked before humans scrubbed away its diversity: from landscapes carved out by megafauna to the primeval forests that emerged following the last ice age, and from the eagle-haunted skies of the Dark Ages to the flower-decked farms of more recent centuries. It uncovers the stories of the people who have helped to shape the landscape, seeking out their footprints even where it seems there are none to be found. And it explores the timeworn knowledge that can help to fix our broken relationship with the earth. Along the way it recounts the environmental detective work – archaeological, cultural and ecological – that has allowed us to reconstruct, in stunning detail, the landscapes we have lost. Today, the natural world is more vulnerable than ever; the footprints of humanity heavier than they have ever been. There is no returning to a Golden Age of nature. But, as this urgent book argues, from the ghosts of the past, we may learn how to build a more wild and ancient future.

Author Biography:

Sophie Yeo is a freelance environmental journalist based in Newcastle. She has written for a variety of publications including the Washington Post, the Guardian and BBC Future. In May 2020 she launched Inkcap Journal, focusing on nature and conservation in Britain, which won the Press Gazette newsletter of the year award in 2022.
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May 23rd, 2024
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320
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  • General (US: Trade)
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(12 b/w photographs)
Dimensions
159x240x23
ISBN-13
9780008474126
Product ID
36746192

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