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Working With Nature - Saving and Using the World's Wild Places (Paperback)
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Working With Nature - Saving and Using the World's Wild Places (Paperback)
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Loot Price R280
Discovery Miles 2 800
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From cocoa farming in Ghana to the orchards of Kent and the desert
badlands of Pakistan, taking a practical approach to sustaining the
landscape can mean the difference between prosperity and ruin.
Working with Nature is the story of a lifetime of work, often in
extreme environments, to harvest nature and protect it - in effect,
gardening on a global scale. It is also a memoir of encounters with
larger-than-life characters such as William Bunting, the gun-toting
saviour of Yorkshire's peatlands and the aristocratic gardener Vita
Sackville-West, examining their idiosyncratic approaches to
conservation. Jeremy Purseglove explains clearly and convincingly
why it's not a good idea to extract as many resources as possible,
whether it's the demand for palm oil currently denuding the forests
of Borneo, cottonfield irrigation draining the Aral Sea, or
monocrops spreading across Britain. The pioneer of engineering
projects to preserve nature and landscape, first in Britain and
then around the world, he offers fresh insights and solutions at
each step.
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