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'Essential reading for lovers of the Great outdoors' - Roger Cox,
Scotsman Magazine In 2019, Jenna Watt took part in the stalking of
a hind on the vast Highland estate of Corrour: part of an immersive
attempt to understand the ideas that lie behind 'rewilding', and
what it means emotionally and physically to participate in
Scotland's deer cull. Piece by piece and chapter by chapter she
unravels the story of that one day spent hunting the hind,
interlaced with her discovery that her ancestors were deer
stalkers, game keepers and ghillies on a Highland estate, who once
took part in increasingly controversial land practices like
muirburn and species persecution. This exploration leads her into
the complex and often conflict-ridden world of the rewilding
movement. She meets the 'Wolf Man' of the Highlands, who wants to
introduce the first wild wolves back into Scotland for over 300
years; a mountain ecologist who ranges alone across the landscape
to track the environmental impact of deer on Scotland's upland
ecosystem; landowners who are reintroducing species like beaver,
ospreys and sea-eagles onto their estates; and a female deer
stalker, who is trying to introduce more women into the
male-dominated world of stalking and game-keeping. In the process,
Jenna comes to better understand the meaning of 'wildness', the
shifting baselines of 'rewilding', and, in a world beset by climate
change and species extinction, how to cope, both as an individual
and as a society, with the concept of ecological grief.
Faslane, a hugely powerful and timely insight into the UK's current
nuclear debate. Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde, or Faslane,
situated 40 miles outside Glasgow, is home to the UK's nuclear
missile program: Trident. With her family having worked in Faslane
with Trident all her life, and with her friends protesting at the
gates, Jenna endeavours to understand her relationship to Trident,
the wider nuclear debate and activism.
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