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[F]ans of Roger Deakin, Robert Macfarlane, Nan Shepherd, and other British naturalists will follow right along ... A fine work of environmental literature that demands a tolerance for detail and should inspire others to follow suit. --Kirkus This wonderfully readable book, which is partly a memoir and partly a plan of action, is an inspirational guide for how to 'rewild' a landscape....This honest, thoroughly researched and deeply hopeful book will appeal to everyone--especially farmers--who is concerned about how intensive farming practices are degrading the environment and how to restore nature to ravaged lands. --Forbes, Ten of the Best Books About Climate Change, Conservation And The Environment of 2018 Wilding is one of the most exhilarating books I know. Knepp Castle is a modern marvel, a wild ancient landscape in a modern domestic country, a place filled with birds and animals leading their own independent and remarkable lives. Isabella Tree, who lives there, tells the rich, complicated story of Knepp. As a writer, Tree is both elegant and deeply informed, and the story is full of poetic awareness and scientific foundations. This story will delight anyone who's interested in nature, wildlife, and hope. --Roxana Robinson, author of Sweetwater In a story that is part personal memoir, part work of conservation, Tree reveals the capacity of the wild to reclaim the land--as long as humans step out of the way. --Smithsonian, Ten Best Science Books of 2018 Wilding is both a timely and important book. --Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books 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 Packham Every farmer (and perhaps every conservationist) in Britain needs to go and spend a day at Knepp. The Knepp 'wilding' project is a vitally important experiment for working out what we can do to let nature back into our farmed landscapes.... This book tells this vital story and deserves to be widely read. --James Rebanks, author of A Shepherd's Life The remarkable story of an astounding transformation. --George Monbiot Isabella Tree's apparently quixotic tale of Exmoor ponies, longhorn cattle, red deer and Tamworth pigs roaming free on an aristocratic estate is a hugely important addition to the literature of what can be done to restore soil and soul. --Caspar Henderson, The Guardian

This wonderfully readable book, which is partly a memoir and partly a plan of action, is an inspirational guide for how to 'rewild' a landscape....This honest, thoroughly researched and deeply hopeful book will appeal to everyone--especially farmers--who is concerned about how intensive farming practices are degrading the environment and how to restore nature to ravaged lands. --Forbes, Ten of the Best Books About Climate Change, Conservation And The Environment of 2018 Wilding is one of the most exhilarating books I know. Knepp Castle is a modern marvel, a wild ancient landscape in a modern domestic country, a place filled with birds and animals leading their own independent and remarkable lives. Isabella Tree, who lives there, tells the rich, complicated story of Knepp. As a writer, Tree is both elegant and deeply informed, and the story is full of poetic awareness and scientific foundations. This story will delight anyone who's interested in nature, wildlife, and hope. --Roxana Robinson, author of Sweetwater In a story that is part personal memoir, part work of conservation, Tree reveals the capacity of the wild to reclaim the land--as long as humans step out of the way. --Smithsonian, Ten Best Science Books of 2018 Wilding is both a timely and important book. --Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books 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 Packham Every farmer (and perhaps every conservationist) in Britain needs to go and spend a day at Knepp. The Knepp 'wilding' project is a vitally important experiment for working out what we can do to let nature back into our farmed landscapes.... This book tells this vital story and deserves to be widely read. --James Rebanks, author of A Shepherd's Life The remarkable story of an astounding transformation. --George Monbiot Isabella Tree's apparently quixotic tale of Exmoor ponies, longhorn cattle, red deer and Tamworth pigs roaming free on an aristocratic estate is a hugely important addition to the literature of what can be done to restore soil and soul. --Caspar Henderson, The Guardian

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Isabella Tree is an award-winning author and travel writer, and the manager of the Knepp Wildland Project, along with her husband, Charlie. She has contributed to National Geographic, Granta, The Sunday Times, and The Observer, and her articles have been chosen for The Best American Travel Writing and Reader’s Digest Today’s Best Nonfiction. Tree is the author of several books, including The Living Goddess and The Bird Man. She lives in England. Eric Schlosser is the author of the books Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness, and Command and Control.

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