Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English

LINESCAPES

Hugh Warwick

Remapping and Reconnecting Britain's Fragmented Wildlife

It is rare to find a landscape untouched by our lines – the hedges, walls, ditches and dykes built to enclose and separate; and the green lanes, roads, canals, railways and power lines, designed to connect. This vast network of lines has transformed our landscape.

In Linescapes, Hugh Warwick unravels the far-reaching ecological consequences of the lines we have drawn: as our lives and our land were being fenced in and threaded together, so wildlife habitats have been cut into ever smaller, and increasingly unviable, fragments.

Hugh Warwick has travelled across the country to explore this linescape from the perspective of our wildlife and to understand how, with a manifesto for reconnection, we can help our flora and fauna to flourish.
Linescapes offers a fresh and bracing perspective on Britain’s countryside, one that proposes a challenge and gives ground for hope; for while nature does not tend to straight lines and discrete borders, our lines can and do contain a real potential for wildness and for wildlife.

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Book Published 2017-05-04 by Square Peg
Book Published 2017-05-04 by Square Peg

Comments

"What a fascinating and intricate book this will be: following the lines in our landscape as a means to understand better how we are joined to, but also separated from, the natural world. This is a book born of a lifetime's passionate study of places and their creatures, and suffused with Hugh's characteristic warmth, humour and erudition."

“A requiem, a call to arms and a delighted amble along a hedge: a kind, wise, angry, jolly and mournful book, as rumbustiously readable as it is urgently important."

“Warwick takes you by the hand into a world of deep ecological connections; he illuminates the fragmented land we humans have created and shifts our perspective from the abstraction of maps and lines down to what really matters. From train rides, to balloon flight to forays into the luxuriant depths of Devon green lanes, this story is part discovery, part wonderment, both a travel narrative and a scientific exploration, but also, perhaps a new dreamtime for Britain. It will stay with me for a long time… Full of optimism, curiosity and good humour, Warwick is a delightful companion, never arrogant or preaching, always inspiring and curious. This story could change the way we perceive our land and its inhabitants forever.”

"Eye-opening and inspiring. Linescapes has utterly transformed my vision of the British countryside. Hugh Warwick offers a compelling primer for rethinking and rewilding our fragmented natural world."