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Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life

Monbiot, George

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How many of us sometimes feel that we are scratching at the walls of this life, seeking to find our way into a wider space beyond? That our mild, polite existence sometimes seems to crush the breath out of us? Feral is the lyrical and gripping story of George Monbiot’s efforts to re-engage with nature and discover a new way of living. He shows how, by restoring and rewilding our damaged ecosystems on land and at sea, we can bring wonder back into our lives. Making use of some remarkable scientific discoveries, Feral lays out a new, positive environmentalism, in which nature is allowed to find its own way.
Review: George Monbiot is always original – both in the intelligence of his opinions and the depth and rigour of his research. In this unusual book he presents a persuasive argument for a new future for the planet, one in which we consciously progress from just conserving nature to actively rebuilding it — Brian Eno A Book of Revelations for our times — Farley Mowat Feral has really opened my mind to the history and possibilities of our landscape. It reflects a very real need in us all right now to be released from our claustrophobic monoculture and sense of powerlessness. To break the straight lines into endless branches. To free our land from its absent administrators. To rewild both the landscape and ourselves. It is the most positive and daring environmental book I have read. In order to change our world you have to be able to see a better one. I think George has done that — Thom Yorke Part personal journal, part rigorous (and riveting) natural history, but above all unbridled vision for a less cowed, more self-willed planet, this is a book that will change the way you think about the natural world, and your place in it. Big, bold and beautifully written, his vision of a rewilded world is, well, truly captivating — Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Imprint: Penguin UK
Publication date: 01/08/2014

Staff review

Feral

by George Monbiot

Review by Claude

A simply delicious read! I'm so glad I savoured this one for as long as I did. The way Monbiot writes about nature is so beautiful, he has a gift for boiling down complexity in such a way that makes his books both enormously readable and packed with digestible evidence. Feral gives the layman like me the tools to better understand our screwed-up systems and how to solve them. This book is a triumph for a planet in crisis, and a book that everyone should read!

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