Wilderlands: The Human History of Wild Britain by Dr Eloise Kane Groundswell Speaker 2024 you’ll keep turning the pages

you’ll keep turning the pages until the last racking sob’ – Daily Mail

WalkerISBN: 9781406307634Extent: 416 pages

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Wilderlands: The Human History of Wild Britain by Dr Eloise Kane Groundswell Speaker 2024 you’ll keep turning the pagesWhen was Britain last truly wild? And what, if anything, remains? This is the unexpectedly human history of wild Britain. In Wilderlands, archaeologist Eloise Kane unearths 12,000 years of our changing relationship with and influence on the landscape. Through prehistory, Roman occupation, the Middle Ages and beyond, we see the unfamiliar beasts of our old wild make way for species such as brown hare and fallow deer, now romanticised as eternal symbols