Wildlands: The Last Abundant Landscapes on Earth
About this ebook
From the WINNER OF THE RICHARD JEFFERIES PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING
This book reveals what nature can truly look like on our planet, in its most chaotic, unbridled forms. It takes you to wildernesses so improbable, so ancient, that you could scarcely invent them, and reveals what happens when ecosystems are allowed to function - and remarkable animals left alone to shape them.
It will take you deep into the world's most raucous places; grasslands where cheetahs and hyenas still battle under starlight; waters, where rivers run solid with salmon, and jungles where shrews make friends with plants. It reveals places untouched, as yet, by man, in biomes that predate our existence by millions of years.
Join naturalist Benedict Macdonald on a journey deep into places that remind us of what nature can be, how rich our planet once was, and how humans - at their best - can restore the great abundance of the world.
Praise for previous book:
'Visionary' - New Statesman
'Wonderfully imaginative' - Spectator
About the author
Benedict Macdonald is a writer, television producer and conservationist, whose first book, Rebirding: Restoring Britain's Wildlife, was the winner of the inaugural Wainwright Prize for Global Conservation and the Richard Jefferies Prize. Ben is a lifelong naturalist who perfected his storytelling skills during an award-winning career as a wildlife filmmaker. He has worked as a field director on such Emmy- and BAFTA-award winning series as David Attenborough's Our Planet (Netflix) & The Hunt (BBC1). In 2021, following the success of Rebirding and his growing influence in the UK conservation movement, he moved full time into professional nature restoration. He now works as Head of Nature Restoration for Real Wild Estates, where he manages thousands of acres back to wilderness as one of Britain's few professional rewilders.
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