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Title: THE MOTH SNOWSTORM
NATURE AND JOY
By: Michael McCarthy
Format: Hardback

List price: £20.00


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ISBN 10: 1444792776
ISBN 13: 9781444792775
Publisher: JOHN MURRAY GENERAL PUBLISHING DIVISION
Pub. date: 21 May, 2015
Pages: 272
Description: A new defence of a mortally threatened natural world.
Synopsis: A great, rhapsodic, urgent book full of joy, grief, rage and love ...A must-read' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk Nature has many gifts for us, but perhaps the greatest of them all is joy; the intense delight we can take in the natural world, in its beauty, in the wonder it can offer us, in the peace it can provide - feelings stemming ultimately from our own unbreakable links to nature, which mean that we cannot be fully human if we are separate from it. In The Moth Snowstorm Michael McCarthy, one of Britain's leading writers on the environment, proposes this joy as a defence of a natural world which is ever more threatened, and which, he argues, is inadequately served by the two defences put forward hitherto: sustainable development and the recognition of ecosystem services. Drawing on a wealth of memorable experiences from a lifetime of watching and thinking about wildlife and natural landscapes, The Moth Snowstorm not only presents a new way of looking at the world around us, but effortlessly blends with it a remarkable and moving memoir of childhood trauma from which love of the natural world emerged.It is a powerful, timely, and wholly original book which comes at a time when nature has never needed it more.
Publication: UK
Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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