Elegy For a River. Whiskers Claws and Conservation’s Last Wild Hope (Moorhouse Tom); Penguin, 2022

Water voles are small, brownish, bewhiskered and charming. Made famous by 'Ratty' in The Wind in the Willows, once they were a ubiquitous part of our waterways. They were a totem of our rivers. Now, however, they are nearly gone. This is their story, and the story of a conservationist with a wild hope: that he could bring them back.

Tom Moorhouse spent eleven years beside rivers, fens, canals, lakes and streams, researching British wildlife. Quite a lot of it tried to bite him. He studied four main species - two native and endangered, two invasive and endangering - beginning with water voles. He wanted to solve their conservation problems. He wanted to put things right.

This book is about whether it worked, and what he learnt - and about what those lessons mean, not just for water voles but for all the world's wildlife. It is a book for anyone who has watched ripples spread on lazy waters, and wondered what moves beneath. Or who has waited in quiet hope for a rustle in the reeds, the munch of a stem, or the patter of unseen paws.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781529176728
Автор(ы)	Moorhouse Tom
Вес	0.19
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2022
Жанр	нехудожественная литература
Издатель	Penguin
Издательство	Penguin
Кол-во страниц	262
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	262
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Тип обложки	мягкая