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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>

<p>From the icy oceans of our poles to remote coral islands, David Attenborough has filmed in every ocean habitat on planet earth. Now, with long-term collaborator Colin Butfield, he shares the story of our last great, critical wilderness, and the one which shapes the land we live on, regulates our climate and creates the air we breathe.<br/><br/>Through one hundred years, eight unique ocean habitats, countless intriguing species - and through personal stories, history and cutting-edge science - <i>Ocean </i>uncovers the mystery, the wonder and the frailty of the most unexplored habitat on our planet. And it shows its remarkable resilience: it is the part of our world that can, and in some cases has, recovered the fastest, and in our lifetimes we could see a fully restored marine world, even richer and more spectacular than we could possibly hope, if we act now.<br/><br/><b>It is a book almost a century in the making, but one that has never been more urgently needed.</b></p>