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Losing Eden - Why Our Minds Need the Wild (Paperback)
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Losing Eden - Why Our Minds Need the Wild (Paperback)
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List price R339
Loot Price R275
Discovery Miles 2 750
You Save R64 (19%)
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A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Beautifully written,
movingly told and meticulously researched ... a convincing plea for
a wilder, richer world' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding 'By the
time I'd read the first chapter, I'd resolved to take my son into
the woods every afternoon over winter. By the time I'd read the
sixth, I was wanting to break prisoners out of cells and onto the
mossy moors. Losing Eden rigorously and convincingly tells of the
value of the natural universe to our human hearts' Amy Liptrot,
author of The Outrun Today many of us live indoor lives,
disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature
remains deeply ingrained in our language, culture and
consciousness. For centuries, we have acted on an intuitive sense
that we need communion with the wild to feel well. Now, in the
moment of our great migration away from the rest of nature, more
and more scientific evidence is emerging to confirm its place at
the heart of our psychological wellbeing. So what happens, asks
acclaimed journalist Lucy Jones, as we lose our bond with the
natural world-might we also be losing part of ourselves? Delicately
observed and rigorously researched, Losing Eden is an enthralling
journey through this new research, exploring how and why connecting
with the living world can so drastically affect our health.
Travelling from forest schools in East London to the Svalbard
Global Seed Vault via primeval woodlands, Californian laboratories
and ecotherapists' couches, Jones takes us to the cutting edge of
human biology, neuroscience and psychology, and discovers new ways
of understanding our increasingly dysfunctional relationship with
the earth. Urgent and uplifting, Losing Eden is a rallying cry for
a wilder way of life - for finding asylum in the soil and joy in
the trees - which might just help us to save the living planet, as
well as ourselves.
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