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Elegy For a River - Whiskers, Claws and Conservation's Last, Wild Hope (Paperback)
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Elegy For a River - Whiskers, Claws and Conservation's Last, Wild Hope (Paperback)
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A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK: 'particularly enjoyable' 'Somehow
laugh-out-loud funny - passionate, warm and full of fascinating
insights into the eccentric world of the field naturalist.' -
Isabella Tree, author of Wilding Water voles are small, brownish,
bewhiskered and charming. Made famous by 'Ratty' in The Wind in the
Willows, once they were a ubiquitous part of our waterways. They
were a totem of our rivers. Now, however, they are nearly gone.
This is their story, and the story of a conservationist with a wild
hope: that he could bring them back. Tom Moorhouse spent eleven
years beside rivers, fens, canals, lakes and streams, researching
British wildlife. Quite a lot of it tried to bite him. He studied
four main species - two native and endangered, two invasive and
endangering - beginning with water voles. He wanted to solve their
conservation problems. He wanted to put things right. This book is
about whether it worked, and what he learnt - and about what those
lessons mean, not just for water voles but for all the world's
wildlife. It is a book for anyone who has watched ripples spread on
lazy waters, and wondered what moves beneath. Or who has waited in
quiet hope for a rustle in the reeds, the munch of a stem, or the
patter of unseen paws. Praise for Tom Moorhouse: 'The pages of this
book are shot through with quicksilver light reflected from wet fur
- not a lament for our rivers but a chorus of hope for their
future.' - Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path 'Beautiful and
important. Tom's book is extraordinary in its gentle curiosity and
sympathy for his subjects. I love this book.' - Sir Tim Smit KBE,
Executive Vice-Chairman and Co-founder of the Eden Project
'Terrific. Lightly but beautifully written. Very moving. Water
voles are adorable little beasts. They are also tough, randy and
stroppy, as Tom Moorhouse makes clear in this wry, amusing account
of the often bloody, painful and frustrating business of
conservation fieldwork. 'I hold stubbornly to optimism,' he
declares, and his Elegy for a River demands that we do the same.' -
Christopher Somerville, walking correspondent for The Times and
author of The January Man
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