The Lie of the Land by Guy Shrubsole
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025 A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER 'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES ________________________________ The lie of the land: that Britain’s landowners care for the countryside. Our landowning elite are paid billions of taxpayer pounds to be good stewards. But these same landowners have carelessly trampled over our best-loved landscapes, leaving the rivers polluted, fenlands drained, and moorlands burned. Guy Shrubsole has travelled across Britain to expose the lie and meet the communities fighting back to restore our lost landscapes. This is a bold, shared vision for our nation’s wild places, and how we can treat them with the awe and care they deserve. *Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-04-30* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE UNWIN AWARD*‘Brave and brilliant Guy Shrubsole tackles a subject as crucial as it is neglected, and succeeds magnificently’ George Monbiot
‘This book beautifully subverts the central orthodoxy of England, that owning land is the only way to care for it. Rather than being against landowners, its message is one of hope and inclusion for every one of us, that the welfare of the land has always been the interest, expertise and responsibility of its communities’ Nick Hayes, author of The Book of Trespass
‘Guy Shrubsole has done it again, shining his blazing torch on the injustice and greed that twists the natural world out of shape. Exhilarating, insightful and bristling with rightful indignation, this is a book that will ignite the debate about our broken relationship with the land like never before’ Lee Schofield, author of Wild Fell
'Shrubsole sets out a bold, new social contract between landowner and landless to address the challenges of the 21st century. Authoritative and well-researched, this is a most important book, essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of an environment we must – somehow – all share' Marion Shoard
'A groundplan to recover England’s green and pleasant land' Alastair McIntosh, author of Soil and Soul
'A clarion call for a more joined up approach to land use – and one that considers the responsibilities as well as the rights of land ownership. Shrubsole has the belly fire of a campaigner but the precision of an historian. This book should be on the reading list of any new Secretary of State thinking about land use’ Roger Mortlock, Chief Executive, The Countryside Charity
Guy Shrubsole is an environmental campaigner and writer. He is the author of Who Owns England?, an instant Sunday Times bestseller, and The Lost Rainforests of Britain, which won the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation and was shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society Literary Prize. For the past decade and a half Guy has campaigned on the climate and nature crises, working for a wide range of organisations from Friends of the Earth and the Right to Roam campaign, to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). He lives in Devon.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780008651770 |
| Title | The Lie of the Land |
| Author | Guy Shrubsole |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2024-09-12 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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