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  • The Lost Rainforests of Britain

  • By: Guy Shrubsole
  • Narrated by: Guy Shrubsole
  • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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Publisher's Summary

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023 The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year

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Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society Literary Prize

Temperate 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.

©2022 Guy Shrubsole (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Critic Reviews

RemarkableShrubsole has completely changed the way many people look at the temperate woodlands that remain in parts of western Britain’ Financial Times

If anyone was born to save Britain’s rainforests, it was Guy ShrubsoleSunday Times, The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year

Fascinating, lyricalA celebration of these dazzling worlds and a plea to act before they are extinguished’ The Times

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