Linescapes
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Remapping and Reconnecting Britain's Fragmented Wildlife
‘Glorious… Political, passionate, perceptive’ Robert Macfarlane
An eye-opening exploration of the lines that cut through our countryside, from hedges to railways, and a passionate manifesto for reconnecting wildlife.
Our landscape has been transformed by a vast network of lines, from hedges and walls to railways and power cables. In Linescapes, Hugh Warwick unravels the far-reaching ecological consequences of these changes. As our lives and our land were fenced in and threaded together, wildlife habitats were cut into ever smaller – and increasingly unviable – fragments.
Yet as Warwick travels across this linescape, he shows that we can help our flora and fauna to flourish once again. With his fresh and bracing perspective on Britain’s countryside, he proposes a challenge and gives ground for hope, for our lines can and do contain a real potential for wildness and for wildlife.
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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 04/05/2017
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ISBN: 9781473511286
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Length: 272 Pages
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RRP: £10.99
Reviews
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In Linescapes, Hugh Warwick has written a gloriously unclassifiable book, a manifesto-adventure-exploration-reflection that manages to be political, passionate, perceptive – and very funny
Robert Macfarlane
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A requiem, a call to arms and a delighted amble along a hedge: a kind, wise, angry, jolly and mournful book, as rumbustiously readable as it is urgently important
Charles Foster, author of Being a Beast
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Part discovery, part wonderment, both a travel narrative and a scientific exploration, Linescapes could change the way we perceive our land and its inhabitants forever
Miriam Darlington, author of Otter Country
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A fascinating work of landscape detection based on entirely straight journeys
Stephen Moss, Best Nature Books of 2017, Guardian
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Eye-opening and inspiring. Linescapes has utterly transformed my vision of the British countryside. Hugh Warwick offers a compelling primer for rethinking and rewilding our fragmented natural world.
Roman Krznaric, author of Empathy and Carpe Diem Regained
