Forecast: A Diary of the Lost Seasons

Author:   Joe Shute
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9781472976772


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   27 April 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Joe Shute
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Wildlife
ISBN:  

9781472976772


ISBN 10:   1472976770
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   27 April 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: A Lockdown Spring Chapter 2: Weather Watch Chapter 3: Storm Clouds Chapter 4: Seasons Past Chapter 5: The Changing Harvest Chapter 6: Exodus Chapter 7: Budburst Chapter 8: Winter Sleep Chapter 9: Muirburn Chapter 10: Melting Chapter 11: Waterland Chapter 12: The Vast Machine Chapter 13: Weather Notes Chapter 14: Solstice Further Reading Acknowledgements Index

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Forecast is the most urgently needed, most important book I have read in a very long time. * Michael Morpurgo * This urgent, elegiac book's call to mend our broken relationship with the land feels more vital by the day. * Mail on Sunday * With a journalist's eye for detail, he backs up his captivating anecdotal evidence regarding the seasons with the results of solid scientific research to finger the culprit: global warming. * Countryfile * At its core, this book is a love letter to the biosphere and to our bond with it. Joe Shute has a journalist's ear and a lover's eye; he demonstrates what one sees while moving across the land, tracking change when all else seemed still. This is no ordinary nature diary - it enlarges our perspective of what has altered, and what is being lost ... this is one of the most poignant and affecting nature books I have read this year. * Miriam Darlington * An absolutely beautiful account of life going on while the world stopped. I loved it. * Kate Bradbury * Joe Shute does not rant but, with passion and expertise, illuminates in beautifully clear prose, laced with well-judged literary and historical references, the scale of the threat posed to our natural world by Climate Change. A 'must read' for anyone who is curious and who cares * Jonathan Dimbleby * Joe Shute is one of Britain's finest writers on nature. Or indeed, any other subject. * John Lewis-Stempel * What a wonderful read. Joe has interwoven our national pastime, our obsession about the weather, into a fascinating history of our changing climate through the centuries and its defining influence on our consciousness. Told through the eyes of farmers, poets and philosophers as well as the author's own personal explorations across the country, Forecast is a beautifully written elegy to our natural world and a warning of how quickly it is changing. * William Sieghart *


Forecast is the most urgently needed, most important book I have read in a very long time. * Michael Morpurgo * This urgent, elegiac book’s call to mend our broken relationship with the land feels more vital by the day. * Mail on Sunday * With a journalist's eye for detail, he backs up his captivating anecdotal evidence regarding the seasons with the results of solid scientific research to finger the culprit: global warming. * Countryfile * At its core, this book is a love letter to the biosphere and to our bond with it. Joe Shute has a journalist’s ear and a lover’s eye; he demonstrates what one sees while moving across the land, tracking change when all else seemed still. This is no ordinary nature diary – it enlarges our perspective of what has altered, and what is being lost … this is one of the most poignant and affecting nature books I have read this year. * Miriam Darlington * An absolutely beautiful account of life going on while the world stopped. I loved it. * Kate Bradbury * Joe Shute does not rant but, with passion and expertise, illuminates in beautifully clear prose, laced with well-judged literary and historical references, the scale of the threat posed to our natural world by Climate Change. A ‘must read’ for anyone who is curious and who cares. * Jonathan Dimbleby * Joe Shute is one of Britain's finest writers on nature. Or indeed, any other subject. * John Lewis-Stempel * What a wonderful read. Joe has interwoven our national pastime, our obsession about the weather, into a fascinating history of our changing climate through the centuries and its defining influence on our consciousness. Told through the eyes of farmers, poets and philosophers as well as the author’s own personal explorations across the country, Forecast is a beautifully written elegy to our natural world and a warning of how quickly it is changing. * William Sieghart *


Forecast is the most urgently needed, most important book I have read in a very long time. * Michael Morpurgo * This urgent, elegiac book's call to mend our broken relationship with the land feels more vital by the day. * Mail on Sunday * With a journalist's eye for detail, he backs up his captivating anecdotal evidence regarding the seasons with the results of solid scientific research to finger the culprit: global warming. * Countryfile * At its core, this book is a love letter to the biosphere and to our bond with it. Joe Shute has a journalist's ear and a lover's eye; he demonstrates what one sees while moving across the land, tracking change when all else seemed still. This is no ordinary nature diary - it enlarges our perspective of what has altered, and what is being lost ... this is one of the most poignant and affecting nature books I have read this year. * Miriam Darlington * An absolutely beautiful account of life going on while the world stopped. I loved it. * Kate Bradbury * Joe Shute does not rant but, with passion and expertise, illuminates in beautifully clear prose, laced with well-judged literary and historical references, the scale of the threat posed to our natural world by Climate Change. A 'must read' for anyone who is curious and who cares * Jonathan Dimbleby * Joe Shute is one of Britain's finest writers on nature. Or indeed, any other subject. * John Lewis-Stempel * What a wonderful read. Joe has interwoven our national pastime, our obsession about the weather, into a fascinating history of our changing climate through the centuries and it's defining influence on our consciousness. Told through the eyes of farmers, poets and philosophers as well as the author's own personal explorations across the country, Forecast is a beautifully written elegy to our natural world and a warning of how quickly it is changing. * William Sieghart *


Author Information

Joe Shute is an author, journalist and weather watcher with a passion for the natural world. He is a senior staff feature writer at The Daily Telegraph where he writes the weekend ‘Weather Watch’ and ‘What to Spot’ columns. Joe studied history at Leeds University and started his career as a trainee reporter on the Halifax Evening Courier before working at The Yorkshire Post as its crime correspondent. He previously wrote A Shadow Above: The Fall and Rise of the Raven, published by Bloomsbury in 2018. He lives with his wife in Sheffield. @JoeShute / www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/joe-shute/

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