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Silent Earth

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781529114423

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 268g

  • RRP: £9.99

Silent Earth

  • THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Read this book, then look and wonder' Sunday Times

We have to learn to live as part of nature, not apart from it. And the first step is to start looking after the insects, the little creatures that make our shared world go round.

Insects are essential for life as we know it - without them, our world would look vastly different. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research and a lifetime's study, Dave Goulson reveals the long decline of insect populations that has taken place in recent decades and its potential consequences.

Eye-opening and inspiring, Silent Earth asks for profound change at every level and a passionate argument or us to love, respect and care for our six-legged friends.

'Compelling - Silent Earth is a wake-up call' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding


'Enlightening, urgent and funny, Goulson's book is a timely call for action' New Statesman

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781529114423

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 268g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • A powerful book

    Mark Cocker, Financial Times

  • Thoughtful, frightening and yet hugely enjoyable... This book will make you think differently about our right of dominion over the planet

    Daily Telegraph

  • It's remarkable that insect decline has gone largely unnoticed by non-specialists... Keep dreaming, Dave Goulson. We'll need more dreamers like you

    The Times

  • If Silent Earth contains a single incontestable message it is that nature - insects, flowers, plants, trees, birds and mammals, including our species - is a single system... This powerful book tells us that we need to act as if we understand this essential truth

    Financial Times

  • Compelling, penetrating, devastating - Silent Earth is a wake-up call for the world. Dave Goulson matches science with eloquence and passion to spotlight the cataclysmic loss of insect life on our planet. Rachel Carson would be proud.

    Isabella Tree

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About the Author

Dave Goulson

Dave Goulson is Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex. He has published more than 300 scientific articles on the ecology and conservation of bumblebees and other insects. His books include the Sunday Times bestsellers The Garden Jungle and A Sting in the Tale, which was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize and has been translated into fifteen languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, a trustee of Pesticide Action Network, and an Ambassador for the UK Wildlife Trusts.

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