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Irreplaceable: The fight to save our wild places

Autor Julian Hoffman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 apr 2020
Highly Commended Finalist for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation 2020

A Royal Geographical SocietyBook of the Year 2020

For fans of George Monbiot, Isabella Tree and Robert Macfarlane, and for the nature-lover in your life,an urgent and lyrical account of endangered places around the globe and the people fighting to save them.

'Powerful, timely, beautifully written and wonderfully hopeful...Julian Hoffman shines a light on what we had, what we have, and how much we still stand to lose' Rob Cowen, author ofCommon Ground

'Unforgettable.
At a time when the Earth often seems broken beyond repair, this courageous and hopeful book offers life-changing encounters with the more-than-human world' Nancy Campbell, author ofThe Library of Ice

'Wonderful, tender and subtle, beautifully written and filled with a calm authority...No book has done more to champion the idea that connections between the human and the natural are the lifeblood of everything that matters' Adam Nicolson, author ofThe Seabird's Cry

All across the world, irreplaceable habitats are under threat. Unique ecosystems of plants and animals are being destroyed by human intervention. From the tiny to the vast, from marshland to meadow, and from Kent to Glasgow to India to America, they are disappearing.


Irreplaceableis not only a love letter to the haunting beauty of these landscapes and the wild species that call them home, including nightingales, lynxes, hornbills, redwoods and elephant seals, it is also a timely reminder of the vital connections between humans and nature, and all that we stand to lose in terms of wonder and wellbeing. This is a book about the power of resistance in an age of loss; a testament to the transformative possibilities that emerge when people come together to defend our most special places and wildlife from extinction.


Exploring treasured coral reefs and remote mountains, tropical jungle and ancient woodland, urban allotments and tallgrass prairie, Julian Hoffman traces the stories of threatened places around the globe through the voices of local communities and grassroots campaigners as well as professional ecologists and academics. And in the process, he asks what a deep emotional relationship with place offers us - culturally, socially and psychologically. In this rigorous, intimate and impassioned account, he presents a powerful call to arms in the face of unconscionable natural destruction.

'A terrific book, prescient, serious and urgent' Amy Liptrot, author ofThe Outrun
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241979495
ISBN-10: 0241979498
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Julian Hoffman is the author ofThe Small Heart of Things, which won the 2012 AWP Award Series for Creative Nonfiction and the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature. He was also the winner of the Terrain.org Nonfiction Prize and has written for EarthLines, Kyoto Journal, Beloit Fiction Journal, Briar Cliff Review, Flyway, Redwood Coast Review, Silk Road Review and Southern Humanities Review, amongst others. He lives in north-western Greece.

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The power of Hoffman's book lies in the reporting: he doesn't deal - as many environmentalists do - in generalities and alarmist warnings about what lies ahead for the world, but in the specifics of the here and now.
An impassioned account of the importance of Naturein our lives, anda timely reminder of the need to take actionin the face of unprecendented destruction of the natural world.
If the pen really is mightier than the sword, then Julian Hoffman is a knight errant, looking for trouble, a champion of underdogs.
Apassionateandlyricalwork of reportage and advocacy.
Lyricaland hugelyintelligent
Apowerful, tender, inspiring clarion call to save the places that matter,right across the globe.
A powerful hymnto humanity engaging with nature...[a]remarkable, illuminatingbook.
if you read one book this year, make it Julian Hoffman'sIrreplaceable