Stephen Moss (1) (1960–)
Autore di The Bumper Book of Nature: A User's Guide to the Great Outdoors
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Sull'Autore
Stephen Moss is a television producer, naturalist and author who has worked on many groundbreaking wildlife programmes. He has written more than 20 books.
Opere di Stephen Moss
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The Guardian and Observer guides to nature spotting : part 1 : animals — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1960
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Mark, Somerset, England, UK
- Attività lavorative
- natural historian
television producer
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 47
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 1,063
- Popolarità
- #24,217
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 20
- ISBN
- 152
- Lingue
- 4
This book is about wildlife. About birds, certainly, but equally about all the other wild creatures - animals, invertebrates, fish and so on - which call Britain home. He examines all their possible habitats in turn: farmland, woodland, moorland, water and wetland, seaside, towns and cities. He discovers how our imperative to produce ever-increasing quantities of cheap food is destroying and impoverishing the habitats of so much wildlife: not just on farmland increasingly turned over to agri-business, but also on moorland, the sea, and wetlands. He illustrates his arguments not only by drawing on research and statistics, but with anecdote and personal stories.
This is a very thorough and convincing account of the perilous state that much of the wildlife we think of as part of our natural heritage is in. Though he's careful to point out that every creature, even if not cute and well-loved like the hedgehog and red squirrel, has a part to play in ensuring the health of some other creature in the food chain. And he writes too about success stories - the re-introduction of the red kite: the egrets which, now that our climate is generally warming, are making regular appearances on UK waterways are just two examples.
He writes this book as a warning, wanting everybody who reads it to become part of the fightback in a cause he regards as too important to lose. His style is informal, very easy to read. Even when he's making known the results of various studies, or sharing dismal statistics, the information is easy to absorb, and I continued to read with interest and attention.
Nevertheless, little of what he writes about here is unknown to the averagely well-informed and concerned reader. Though I really enjoyed reading this book, I'm not sure I learned a great deal that at some level I didn't already know about. I'd like to think that if I gave a copy to someone who doesn't yet think too hard about environmental matters, they'd find it an approachable and worthwhile read, and one which might change their viewpoint a little. I want this book to find a wide audience.… (altro)