George Monbiot studied zoology at Oxford, and has spent his career as a journalist and environmentalist, working with others to defend the natural world he loves. His celebrated Guardian columns are syndicated all over the world. He is the author of the bestselling books Captive State, The Age of Consent, Bring on the Apocalypse and Heat, as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man's Land. His latest book, Feral, was shortlisted for the Great Outdoors Book of the Year award. Among the many prizes he has won is the UN Global 500 award for outstanding environmental achievement, presented to him by Nelson Mandela.
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*
It could not be more rigorously researched, more elegantly
delivered, or more timely. We need such big thinking for our own
sakes and those of our children. Bring on the wolves and whales, I
say, and, in the words of Maurice Sendak, let the wild rumpus
start
*Sunday Telegraph (Book of the Week)*
The world knows George Monbiot mostly from his powerful and
perceptive journalism. But this is a whole different order of
writing and thinking, a primal account of an unstifled world
*Bill McKibben*
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*
[Praise for George Monbiot]: A dazzling command of science and a
relentless faith in people
*Naomi Klein*
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