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LOST RAINFORESTS OF BRIT EB
About this book
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 Britain's 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 Doyle's 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 person's quest to find Britain's 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Map
- 1 Paradise Lost
- 2 Ghosts in the Landscape
- 3 Trespassing Botanists & Fern Maniacs
- 4 Seeing the Wood for the Trees
- 5 Myth, Magic and The Mabinogion
- 6 A Perfect Republic of Shepherds
- 7 ‘Nobody Cares for the Woods Anymore’
- 8 The Accidental Rainforest
- 9 Forest People
- 10 Bringing Back Britain’s Rainforests
- 11 Ghost Hunting
- Coda: If You Go Down to the Woods Today
- Picture Section
- Endnotes
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- About the Publisher