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There Are Places In The World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness [Bok / Pocket]

<p> <strong>A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic.</strong> </p> <p>BIRDS. 11,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightness, freedom and richness of plumage and song.</p> <p>David Attenborough has been watching and learning all his life. His classic book, now fully updated with the latest discoveries in ornithology, is a brilliant introduction to bird behaviours around the world: what they do and why they do it. He looks at each step in birds' lives and the problems they have to solve: learning to fly; finding food; communicating; mating and caring for nests, eggs and young; migrating; facing dangers and surviving harsh conditions.</p> <p>Sir David has no equal in helping others to learn and making it exciting. His curiosity and enjoyment are infectious. He shows the lifelong pleasure that birds around us offer, and how much we miss if unaware of them.</p>

Shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation <p>'Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.' <strong>Chris Packham</strong></p> <p>For thousands of years, humans have been the architects of the natural world. Our activities have permanently altered the environment - for good and for bad.</p> <p>In <em>Nature's Ghosts</em>, award-winning journalist Sophie Yeo examines how the planet would have looked before humans scrubbed away its diversity: from landscapes carved out by megafauna to the primeval forests that emerged following the last Ice Age, and from the eagle-haunted skies of the Dark Ages to the flower-decked farms of more recent centuries.</p> <p>Uncovering the stories of the people who have helped to shape the landscape, she seeks out their footprints even where it seems there are none to be found. And she explores the timeworn knowledge that can help to fix our broken relationship with the earth.</p> <p>Along the way, Sophie encounters the environmental detectives - archaeological, cultural and ecological - reconstructing, in stunning detail, the landscapes we have lost.</p> <p>Today, the natural world is more vulnerable than ever; the footprints of humanity heavier than they have ever been. But, as this urgent book argues, from the ghosts of the past, we may learn how to build a more wild and ancient future.</p>

Becoming Earth [Bok / Pocket]