Nature's Ghosts - The world we lost and how to bring it back

''Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.'' Chris Packham 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. In Nature''s Ghosts , award-winning journalist Sophie Yeo 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. Uncovering the stories of the people who have helped to shape the landscape, she seeks out their footprints even where it seems there are none to be found. And she explores the timeworn knowledge that can help to fix our broken relationship with the earth. Along the way, Sophie encounters the environmental detectives - archaeological, cultural and ecological - reconstructing, 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. But, as this urgent book argues, from the ghosts of the past, we may learn how to build a more wild and ancient future.

Product details

• Authors: Sophie Yeo
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.04.2025
• EAN: 9780008474157
• ISBN: 978-0-00-847415-7
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sustainability, NATURE / Natural Resources, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biological Diversity, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Biodiversity, Conservation of wildlife & habitats, Environmental Management, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Environmental policy & protocols, Human Geography, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Conservation of wildlife and habitats, Landscape Archaeology, Environmental policy and protocols, Environmental archaeology, ;