The Lost Rainforests Of Britain Av Guy Shrubsole

AS SEEN ON COUNTRYFILEThe Sunday Times Science Book of the Year¿If anyone was born to save Britain¿s rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole¿ Sunday TimesShortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society Literary PrizeTemperate rainforest may once have covered up to one-fifth of Britain, inspiring Celtic druids, Welsh wizards, Romantic poets, and Arthur Conan Doyle¿s most loved creations. Though only fragments now remain, they are home to a dazzling variety of luminous life-forms.In this awe-inspiring investigation, Guy Shrubsole travels through the Western Highlands and the Lake District, down to the rainforests of Wales, Devon, and Cornwall to map these spectacular lost worlds for the first time.This is the extraordinary tale of one person¿s quest to find Britain¿s lost rainforests ¿ and bring them back.

From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgotten rainforests - and an inspiringintervention to help restore them to theplaces they once were In 2020, writer and campaigner Guy Shrubsole moved from London toDevon. As he explored the wooded valleys, rivers and tors of Dartmoor,Guy discovered a spectacular habitat that he had never encounteredbefore: temperate rainforest. Entranced, he would spend the comingmonths investigating the history, ecology and distribution of rainforestsacross England, Wales and Scotland.Britain, Guy discovered, was once a rainforest nation. This is the story of a unique habitat that has been so ravaged, most people today don't realise it exists. Temperate rainforest may once have covered up to one-fifth of Britain and played host to a dazzling variety of luminous life-forms, inspiring Celtic druids, Welsh wizards, Romantic poets, and Arthur Conan Doyle's most loved creations.Though only fragments now remain, they form a rare and internationally important habitat, home to lush ferns and beardy lichens, pine martens and pied flycatchers. But why are even environmentalists unaware of their existence? And how have we managed to so comprehensively excise them from our cultural memory? Taking the reader on an awe-inspiring journey through the Atlanticoakwoods and hazelwoods of the Western Highlands and the LakeDistrict, down to the rainforests of Wales, Devon and Cornwall, TheLost Rainforests of Britain maps these under-recognised ecosystems in exquisite detail - but underlines that without immediate political andpublic support, we risk losing them from the landscape, and perhaps ourcollective memory, forever. A rich, elegaic and boundary-pushing feat ofresearch and reportage, this is the extraordinary tale of one person's quest to find Britain's lost rainforests, and bring them back.