An eye-opening exploration of the lines that cut through our countryside, from hedges to railways, and a passionate manifesto for reconnecting wildlife.
Hugh Warwick is an ecologist and writer with a particular fondness for hedgehogs. He is the author of A Prickly Affair and The Beauty in the Beast and Hedgehog, a monograph. Hugh has studied hedgehogs, off and on, for over 30 years, spending months radio-tracking them around the West Country and Scotland. He is a spokesperson for the British Hedgehog Preservation Society and appears regularly in the media talking about wildlife and the environment. He lives in Oxford with his wife and two children.
In Linescapes, Hugh Warwick has written a gloriously unclassifiable
book, a manifesto-adventure-exploration-reflection that manages to
be political, passionate, perceptive – and very funny
*Robert Macfarlane*
A requiem, a call to arms and a delighted amble along a hedge: a
kind, wise, angry, jolly and mournful book, as rumbustiously
readable as it is urgently important
*Charles Foster, author of Being a Beast*
Part discovery, part wonderment, both a travel narrative and a
scientific exploration, Linescapes could change the way we perceive
our land and its inhabitants forever
*Miriam Darlington, author of Otter Country*
A fascinating work of landscape detection based on entirely
straight journeys
*Guardian*
Eye-opening and inspiring. Linescapes has utterly transformed my
vision of the British countryside. Hugh Warwick offers a compelling
primer for rethinking and rewilding our fragmented natural
world.
*Roman Krznaric, author of Empathy and Carpe Diem Regained*
Accessible and entertaining... Linescapes has given me hope for the
future.
*Stephen Trotter, Director, Wildlife Trust, England*
I will never again look at a hedgerow or dyke in the same way. This
is a beautifully crafted book which elegantly explains why and how
our UK landscape has comes to look like a patchwork quilt – with
each section of the quilt joined together by human-created
needlework in the form of hedgerows, ditches, dykes, paths, green
lanes, canals, roads... This book is both timely and essential
reading. I can’t recommend it highly enough
*Kathy Willis, Director of Science, Kew Gardens*
Hugh Warwick’s tremendous book is a lurid, mournful and sometimes
enragingly upbeat account… Warwick is a warm, chatty writer –
first-class company in a ditch or swamp… He’s one of the warriors
of Twyford Down; a naturalist of great stature, with palpable
empathy for the natural world… To march with him along these
linescapes is to learn, to laugh and, ultimately, to weep… He has
composed a profound, lyrical love song – and hence a powerful call
to arms
*Oldie*
In Linescapes, Hugh Warwick provides a good-humoured, even
visionary, perspective on the fragile ecology of our hedges, roads,
power lines and railways… The author is at his lyrical best when
discussing “ancient paths and green lanes” … He focuses his
inquisitive eye on beauty and complexity… and praises the luxuriant
foxgloves… Warwick is a generous companion and never a prickly
know-it-all, even as he presents his manifesto for reconnection
*Guardian*
Linescapes is a timely book. Warwick pulls together a lot of
disparate elements of the landscape and tries to make us think
about them in a cohesive way
*Nudge*
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