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In 2007, after 20 years of living in London, Kate Humble and her husband Ludo decided it was time to leave city life behind them. Three years later, now the owner of a Welsh smallholding, Kate hears that a nearby farm is to be broken up and sold off. Another farm lost; another opportunity for a young farmless farmer gone. Desperate to stop the sale, Kate contacts the council with an alternative plan - to keep the farm working and to run a rural skills and animal husbandry school alongside it. Against all odds, she succeeds.

WHY WOULD A SAN FRANCISCO ENTREPRENEUR SELL HIS COMPANY, FLY TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, INVEST MILLIONS RESTORING PARADISE, THEN FIGHT LIKE HELL TO GIVE IT ALL AWAY? In 1991, Doug Tompkins left his luxury life in San Francisco and flew 6,500 miles south to a shack in Patagonia that his friends...

'From a very early age I loved the countryside as much as any garden and was fascinated by the life that I saw all around me from trees, wildflowers, birds, insects and mammals. In a sense this book has been over sixty years in gestation. I have kept notebooks and journals ever since I could...

This is the true story of a Londoner who gives up his job as an estate agent in the city, moves to the wilds of Exmoor, starts a smallholding and becomes self-sufficient, with a few bumps along the way. Simon's journey from urbanite to self-sufficient smallholder is brimming with incidents - some funny and some tragic - leading him to question Mother Nature, himself, the food he eats and his role in it all.

Nature took on a new importance for thousands of people when the coronavirus pandemic arrived in Britain, providing solace in a time of great anxiety - not least because the crisis struck at the beginning of spring, the season of hope and renewal, and furthermore, in an extraordinary conjunction, the spring of 2020 turned out to be the loveliest spring ever recorded in Britain. Three nature writers, living like everyone else under lockdown, but walking out each day to exercise, resolved to record their experiences of the coronavirus spring, in widely contrasting parts of the country.

What Jane Goodall did for chimpanzees, international ecologist and conservation scientist Hannah Mumby now does for elephants in this compelling, eye-opening account that brings into focus this species remarkably similar to humans—and makes a persuasive argument for saving them. From early...

Джеральд Даррелл (1925–1995) — знаменитый английский зоолог и путешественник, одна из культовых фигур ХХ века. Книги Даррелла уже давно составляют золотой фонд мировой литературы и пользуются большой популярностью у читателей по всему миру. Будучи с детства одержим идеей создать собственный зоопарк, Даррелл взял в аренду поместье на острове Джерси, где и поселил первых животных, привезенных им из Западной Африки, но за представителями южноамериканской фауны Дарреллу, его жене Джеки и секретарю Софи пришлось отправиться в Аргентину.

من فرويد؟ ومن عائلته؟ كيف كانت نشأته؟ هذه الأسئلة وغيرها يخبرنا عنها هذا الكتاب، ويكشف أسرارًا جديدة في حياة سيغموند فرويد. تروي المفكرة الفرنسية إليزابيث...

Anthropologist Colleen M. Scanlan Lyons brings the eye of a storyteller to present this complex struggle, weaving in her own challenges of balancing family and fieldwork alongside the stories of the people who live in this dynamic region. Intertwined tales, friendships, and hope emerge as people both struggle to sustain their lives in a biodiversity hotspot and strive to create their paradise.

In this brave and provocative work, former US Vice President Al Gore asserts that only a rethinking of our relationship with nature will save the earth's ecology for future generations. Gore's analysis of where we've gone wrong ranges across politics, history, science, economics, psychology, and religion.

लॅरी पेज आणि सर्गि र्ब्रीन या जोडीने गुगल हे सर्च इंजिन सुरु केले. त्यांनी जगातील सर्व माहिती एकत्रीत करुन, तिचे...

स्टीव्ह जॉब्ज - तंत्रज्ञानाच्या जगामधला सगळ्यात प्रसिध्द जादूगार - हे जग सोडून गेला... पण त्यानं आपल्या...

जेफ्री प्रेस्टन जेफ बेझोस (१२ जानेवारी, १९६४) एक अमेरिकन इंटरनेट आणि एरोस्पेस उद्योजक, मीडिया प्रोप्रायटर आणि...

१३ ऑगस्ट १८८८ रोजी भविष्यात प्रचंड लोकप्रिय ठरलेला जॉन लोगी बेअर्ड स्काटलंडमधील ग्लॅसगोजवळच्या खेडय़ात एका...

लसीकरणाचा शोध वैद्यकशास्त्राच्या इतिहासातला अत्यंत महत्त्वाचा शोध आहे. एडवर्ड जेन्नर या इंग्लिश...

Bijna twee jaar lang kocht Ashlee Piper niets nieuws. Door haar eigen ervaringen, handige tips en praktische stappenplannen te delen heeft Ashlee wereldwijd duizenden mensen geïnspireerd om ook meer grip te krijgen op hun tijd, (impuls) aankopen en mentale welzijn. Ashlee creëerde de Geen Nieuwe Spullen-challenge om in dertig dagen een leven vorm te geven dat minder in het teken staat van spullen kopen, zonder aan stijl, gemak of plezier in te moeten leveren.

Conservation Confidential recounts the wild path Mitch Friedman took from radical Earth First! activist engaging in controversial protests to the founder and longtime director of Conservation Northwest. The book documents challenges, success stories, and key lessons along the way to helping preserve Northwest ancient forests, peaceably recover wolves in the region, and much more. ​Part memoir, part guide on strategy for activists and liberal citizens, Conservation Confidential offers the distilled wisdom of experience that Friedman searched for as a young activist but couldn’t find.

Este audiolibro es una investigación periodística y un recuento sobre una situación que ha llevado a familias mexicanas enteras a abandonar sus hogares: las muy diversas consecuencias de la crisis climática y de la devastación de territorios que convierten a poblaciones enteras en migrantes climáticos. Los pobladores de El Bosque son los primeros desplazados por el cambio climático y de reubicación comunitaria por causas climáticas por el Estado, y una alerta del futuro para tantas poblaciones en el mundo.

In this important and timely audiobook, scientists from a broad range of disciplines detail their personal responses to climate change and the ecological crises that led them to form Scientists for XR and work tirelessly within it. Whether their inspiration comes from education or activism, family ties or the work environment, the scientists writing here record what drives them, what non-violent direct action looks like to them, what led them to become interested in the environmental crisis that threatens us all and what they see as the future of life on Earth.

At 83 years old, Valerie Taylor has lived a big, bold, adventurous life. Born in Australia, Valerie spent a great deal of her childhood in New Zealand. A talented artist, she dropped out of school when she contracted polio and was saved by Sister Elizabeth Kenny's treatment plan; it was two years before she could walk unaided. When Valerie was 15, she found work as an animator and moved back to Australia with her family. All the while she thrived on being close to the ocean, and was a keen spearfisher.