The Moth Snowstorm - Nature and Joy (Paperback)

Michael McCarthy

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A great, rhapsodic, urgent book full of joy, grief, rage and love . . . A must-read' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk Nature has many gifts for us, but perhaps the greatest of them all is joy; the intense delight we can take in the natural world, in its beauty, in the wonder it can offer us, in the peace it can provide - feelings stemming ultimately from our own unbreakable links to nature, which mean that we cannot be fully human if we are separate from it. In The Moth Snowstorm Michael McCarthy, one of Britain's leading writers on the environment, proposes this joy as a defence of a natural world which is ever more threatened, and which, he argues, is inadequately served by the two defences put forward hitherto: sustainable development and the recognition of ecosystem services. Drawing on a wealth of memorable experiences from a lifetime of watching and thinking about wildlife and natural landscapes, The Moth Snowstorm not only presents a new way of looking at the world around us, but effortlessly blends with it a remarkable and moving memoir of childhood trauma from which love of the natural world emerged. It is a powerful, timely, and wholly original book which comes at a time when nature has never needed it more.

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Imprint:	John Murray Publishers Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2016
Authors:	Michael McCarthy
Dimensions:	200 x 144 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-4447-9279-9
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist thought & ideology Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Wild animals > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4447-9279-2
Barcode:	9781444792799