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Wilding
The Return of Nature to a British Farm
2018
EN
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**‘A poignant, practical and moving story of how to fix our broken land, this should be conservation's salvation; this should be its future; this is a new hope’ – Chris PackhamWinner of the Richard Jefferies Society / White Horse Book Shop Award for Nature Writing**In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife.Part gri...
Return of the White Stork
Restoring an Iconic Symbol of Rebirth
2027
EN
From the award-winning conservationist and author of Wilding comes another beautiful story of conservation.In the spring of 2020, when the world was on lockdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic, author Isabella Tree watched a breeding pair of white storks atop an oak tree nestled within her rewilding project at Knepp estate in West Sussex. It was the first nesting pair of white storks in Britain on record for more than 600 years. The last pair on record ha...
Available May 11, 2027
The Living Goddess
A journey into the heart of Kathmandu
2015
EN
In a small medieval palace on Kathmandu's Durbar Square lives Nepal's famous Living Goddess -a child as young as three who is chosen from a caste of Buddhist goldsmiths to watch over the country and protect its people. To Nepalis she is the embodiment of Devi (the universal goddess) and for centuries their Hindu kings have sought her blessing to legitimize their rule. Legends swirl about her, for the facts are shrouded in secrecy and closely guarded by dynasties of priests and caretakers. ...
The Book of Wilding
A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small
2023
EN
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Important and empowering' - BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH'Get this great guide and be inspired' - STEPHEN FRY'A handbook of hope ... Buy it, read it, start changing things right now' - JOANNA LUMLEY_______________The enormity of climate change and biodiversity loss can leave us feeling overwhelmed. How can an individual ever make a difference?
2024
EN
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**Winner of the Children's Non-Fiction Book of the Year at The British Book AwardsShortlisted for The Wainwright Prize for Nature and Conservation Writing for Children****Wilding: How to Bring Wildlife Back - An Illustrated Guide is a stunningly beautiful book written by Isabella Tree, which tells the story of the Knepp Estate in West Sussex and introduces younger readers to the concept of rewilding.It is illustrated in full colour with lino prints and wate...
Granta 153: Second Nature
Second Nature
2020
EN
'Never has there been a greater need for writers who can communicate about the environment in such clear, immediate and powerful ways, who can envisage the past as well as the future. The knowledge is already out there. We just have to listen. The contributors to this issue all have a deep understanding of how nature works. Some are scientists; others, environmental journalists exploring the latest thinking about ecosystems and how to repair them; or poets, novelists and activists examinin...
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- Nature’s Wisdom
2021
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From the bestselling author and rewilding pioneer Isabella Tree, When We Went Wild is a heartwarming, sustainably printed picture book about the benefits of letting nature take the lead, inspired by real-life rewilding projects.Nancy and Jake are farmers. They raise their cows and pigs, and grow their crops. They use a lot of big machines to help them, and spray a lot of chemicals to get rid of the weeds and the pests. That’s what all good farmers do, isn’...
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- Nature’s Wisdom
2022
EN
When The Storks Came Home is a charming, fictionalized retelling of the successful reintroduction of the white stork at the Knepp Estate, a UK native bird that has been brought back from extinction.In this second picture book from best-selling author and globally significant conservationist Isabella Tree, we meet eight-year-old Beanie, who loves birds. When she discovers that huge white storks used to live in her own village
Bringing Back the Beaver
The Story of One Mans Quest to Rewild Britains Waterways
2020
EN
“Derek Gow might be the most colorful character in all of Beaverdom.”—Ben Goldfarb, author of Eager"Gow’s triumph has been the reintroduction of the Eurasian beaver."—The New YorkerBringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow’s inspirational and often riotously funny firsthand account of how the movement to rewild the British landscape with beavers has become the single most drama...
Bringing Back the Beaver
The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways
- Narrated by
- Calum Beaton
Unabridged
4 hours 22 min
2020
EN
A bold new voice in nature writing, from the front lines of Britain's rewilding movementBringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow’s inspirational and often riotously funny firsthand account of how the movement to rewild the British landscape with beavers has become the single most dramatic and subversive nature conservation act of the modern era. Since the early 1990s – in the face of outright opposition from government, landowning elit...
Wilding
The Return of Nature to a British Farm
- Narrated by
- Isabella Tree
Unabridged
12 hours 22 min
2019
EN
In Wilding**, Isabella Tree tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, Wilding is, above all, an inspiring story of hope.**Winner of the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Book Shop Literary Prize.T...
The Book of Wilding
A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small
- Narrated by
- Isabella Tree
Unabridged
21 hours 5 min
2023
EN
Bloomsbury presents The Book of Wilding by Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell, read by Isabella Tree.THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Important and empowering' – BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH'Get this great guide and be inspired' – STEPHEN FRY'A handbook of hope ... Buy it, read it, start changing things right now' – JOANNA LUMLEY_______________The enormity of climate change and biodiversity loss can leave us feeling overwhelmed. How can an individual ever m...











