Elegy For a River
Whiskers, Claws and Conservation’s Last, Wild Hope
$30.44
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
24 April 2022
Summary
A lightly, but beautifully written and moving account of a conservationist’s work studying our endangered riverbanks and specifically the water vole, once ubiquitous and now close to extinction.
‘A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK’ - ‘particularly enjoyable’
‘Somehow laugh-out-loud funny - passionate, warm and full of fascinating insights into the eccentric world of the field naturalist.’ - Isabella Tree, author of Wilding
Water voles are small, brownish, bewhiskered and ch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529176728 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529176727 |
| Author: | Tom Moorhouse |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 24 April 2022 |
| Weight: | 189g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 17mm |
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About The Author
Tom Moorhouse
Dr. Tom Moorhouse is a conservation research scientist who has worked for twenty years at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, part of Oxford University’s Zoology Department. He completed his DPhil on the conservation ecology of water voles in 2003 at Oxford. His work subsequently focused on water vole reintroductions, then the management of signal crayfish and hedgehog conservation. More recently he has studied the impacts of wildlife tourism and of global demand for wildlife products.
Outside of conservation research, Tom is the author of award-winning children’s fiction. He has also published a number of public engagement pieces based on his own work, including the winner of the 2003 New Scientist New Millennial Science Writing Competition, entitled Reintroducing ‘Ratty’. He lives with his wife and daughter in Oxford and spends as much time as possible beside water.
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