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Nature’s Ghosts: The must-read prize-shortlisted new book on environmental history and conservation Hardcover – 23 May 2024

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Winner of the 2024 Richard Jefferies Award for nature writing

Shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation

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‘Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.’ Chris Packham

For thousands of years, humans have been the architects of the natural world. Our activities have permanently altered the environment – for good and for bad.

In Nature’s Ghosts, award-winning journalist Sophie Yeo examines how the planet would have looked before humans scrubbed away its diversity: from landscapes carved out by megafauna to the primeval forests that emerged following the last Ice Age, and from the eagle-haunted skies of the Dark Ages to the flower-decked farms of more recent centuries.

Uncovering the stories of the people who have helped to shape the landscape, she seeks out their footprints even where it seems there are none to be found. And she explores the timeworn knowledge that can help to fix our broken relationship with the earth.

Along the way, Sophie encounters the environmental detectives – archaeological, cultural and ecological – reconstructing, in stunning detail, the landscapes we have lost.

Today, the natural world is more vulnerable than ever; the footprints of humanity heavier than they have ever been. But, as this urgent book argues, from the ghosts of the past, we may learn how to build a more wild and ancient future.

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‘Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.’ Chris Packham

'A wondrous book and a ticket for environmental time travel.' Tristan Gooley

‘Offers insights that could help shape a better informed and more constructive debate … Concludes with determination and hope.’ The Spectator

'Wonderful … Invites us to overcome our shortsightedness by peering into the distant past and using it to inform our future.' The Times

'Nature’s Ghosts underscores how people have more choices than they realize when it comes to crafting a better future.' Nature

'Elegantly written and poetic.' Science

'Appealing, thoughtful and impressively researched.' Richard Jefferies Prize panel

'Urgent and utterly compelling.' Lewis Dartnell

‘Essential, intelligent reading. Sophie is one of the brightest, best-informed and most balanced contributors to the big debates.’ Patrick Barkham

'Carefully and elegantly traces the complex histories of humanity's changing relations with land and wildness. … Joyful.' Rebecca Wragg Sykes

'Beautiful and necessary: Yeo will make you see the land with new eyes.' Ben Rawlence

'Fascinating, deeply researched and breathtaking in its scope.' Guy Shrubsole

'A thrilling work of investigative writing.' Lee Schofield

'Important and inspiring.' Helen Rebanks

'Beautifully told.' Henry Mance

‘Vivid and urgent. A powerful new voice.’ Mary-Ann Ochota

‘Captivating. Enriched by luminous ideas and forward-thinking passion.’ Tiffany Francis-Baker

'A tour de force.' Benedict Macdonald

'As textured as the lost landscapes through which Yeo transports us.' Jon Dunn

'Fascinating … Thrilling.' Patrick Galbraith

‘A book of overwhelming, hopeful humanity.’ Harriet Rix

'Poignant.' Geographical Magazine

‘An exhilarating ride back and forth in time … Yeo is a fantastic writer, and marshals a huge, sweeping narrative.’ DiscoverWildlife, best wildlife and nature books of 2024

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The must-read prize-shortlisted new book on environmental history and conservation

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperNorth
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 23 May 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0008474125
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0008474126
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 kg
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.9 x 3.5 x 24 cm
  • Best Sellers Rank: 265,085 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer reviews:
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Sophie Yeo is a writer and journalist based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She has written about nature and climate change for publications including The Washington Post, The Guardian and BBC Future. She is also the founder and editor of Inkcap Journal, a publication focusing on conservation in Britain, which won the Press Gazette Newsletter of the Year award in 2022.

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  • Claire Smith
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very good
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 February 2025
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    Very good read and interesting
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  • Jo2015
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful
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    I couldn't put this book down. Beautifully written, inspiring and optimistic take on the history of our planet and it's wildlife with hope for the future. Fascinating reading, highly recommend.
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  • CHARLES READ
    4.0 out of 5 stars Insightful Read & well researched
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 July 2024
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    Brings to life the scientific record and in some cases the myths of previous environments on earth.
    The idear that a landscape can be held a sacred thing in itself.
    How man has often shaped the land inadvertently or not. Using current research the author often presents conclusions that go against what is touted widely. For example the Bison that roam the forest of north east Poland are considered to be in their natural environment, but not so they are descended from Step Bison & are known to migrate out of the forest.
    Explanations and the narrative are easy to follow presenting a suttle logic.
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  • Chrysalis
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 August 2024
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    I'm an archaeologist working in nature conservation and really enjoyed this book. I don't often read content related to my work in my free time but found it eminently readable and surprisingly entertaining. I would definitely recommend it to both professionals and anyone who cares about the environment. Great read.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 June 2025
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    To all nature lovers and rewilders, in fact everyone, you must read this book. It will give you hope for a brighter future, and might inspire you to take action.
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  • B. McDowell
    4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting ideas
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2024
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    Like so many concerns of the 21st century, rewilding has many facets beyond allowing land to return to an “original” state. Yeo elegantly argues all sides of the coin with anecdote and evidence, not least as to how we identify what was natural in the first place.
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  • Penny L.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, well written and researched.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 June 2024
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    Interesting book, well written and researched, reading it makes you feel you are in the times and places which are written about.
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    I have yet to read it but I have thumbed through it, looks promising
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  • Randy Pruyne
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping!
    Reviewed in the United States on 30 December 2024
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    Loved the historical references and back story to fill in the blanks.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Wow
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    Really nice book, a must for everyone in the sustainable field
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