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The lie of the land
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- WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES________________________________The lie of the land: that Britain's landowners care for the countryside.Our landowning elite are paid billions of taxpayer pounds to be good stewards. But these same landowners have carelessly trampled over our best-loved landscapes, leaving the rivers polluted, fenlands drained, and moorlands burned.Guy Shrubsole has travelled across Britain to expose the lie and meet the communities fighting back to restore our lost landscapes. This is a bold, shared vision for our nation's wild places, and how we can treat them with the awe and care they deserve.*Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-04-30**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS**SHORTLISTED FOR THE UNWIN AWARD*
- About The Author
- Guy Shrubsole is an environmental campaigner and writer. He is the author of Who Owns England?, an instant Sunday Times bestseller, and The Lost Rainforests of Britain, which won the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation. For the past decade Guy has campaigned on the climate and nature crises, working for organisations ranging from Friends of the Earth and the Right to Roam campaign, to Defra. He lives in Devon.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780008651817
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- William Collins, (07 May 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 220 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 24 mm
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