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On her journey she discovers a number of communities who are taking on the job of regenerating their own landscapes and meets a host of fascinating people whose lives are inextricably bound up with questions of sustainability, conservation and landownership.Contents Includes: Western Isles (peatlands) * North Uist (machair) * Islay (farmland) * Loch Arkaig (woodland) * Knapdale (wetland) * Dumfries and Galloway (river and estuary) * Jura (coast) * St Kilda archipelago (sea) * Glasgow (urban landscapes) *Eigg (community ownership)","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55205896225141,"sku":"9781780279350","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781780279350.jpg?v=1786024645"},{"product_id":"9781839830914","title":"Wild Island","description":"In paintings and words, this book portrays a year in the life of Oronsay, a remote Hebridean island that is farmed by the RSPB for the benefit of wildlife. Jane Smith describes her encounters with birds and animals, both wild and domesticated, and the human inhabitants of the island who look after them, in a humorous and personal account.Her vibrant artwork unforgettably evokes the beauty and variety of nature in this part of the world. Any lover of wildlife, of art or of the Hebrides will find this book instantly absorbing.'Jane's illustrations and prose transport you to a very special place and let you into the lives of some very special people . . . skilfully managing this nature reserve and meeting all the challenges thrown at them' - Stuart Housden, Director of RSPB Scotland.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308204798325,"sku":"9781839830914","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781839830914_de979d25-9fdf-4e17-bea0-986d9c2fab42.jpg?v=1786028051"},{"product_id":"9780008148041","title":"Trafficked Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Zoe was taken into care at the age of 13, she thought she was finally going to escape from the cruel abuse she had suffered throughout her childhood. Then social services placed her in a residential unit known to be 'a target for prostitution', and suddenly Zoe's life was worse than it had ever been before. Abused and ostracized by her mother, humiliated by her father’s sexual innuendos, physically assaulted and bullied by her eldest brother, even as a young child Zoe thought she deserved the desperately unhappy life she was living. ‘I’ve sharpened a knife for you,’ her mother told her the first time she noticed angry red wounds on her daughter’s arms. And when Zoe didn’t kill herself, her mother gave her whisky, which she drank in the hope that it would dull the miserable, aching loneliness of her life. One day at school Zoe showed her teacher the livid bruises that were the result of her mother’s latest physical assault and within days she was taken into care. Zoe had been at Denver House for just three weeks when an older girl asked if she’d like to go to a party, then took her to a house where there were just three men. Zoe was a virgin until that night, when two of the men raped her. Having returned to the residential unit in the early hours of the morning, when she told a member of staff what had happened to her, her social worker made a joke about it, then took her to get the morning-after pill. For Zoe, the indifference of the staff at the residential unit seemed like further confirmation of what her mother had always told her – she was worthless. Before long, she realised that the only way to survive in the unit was to go to the ‘parties’ the older girls were paid to take her to, drink the drinks, smoke the cannabis and try to blank out what was done to her when she was abused, controlled and trafficked around the country. No action was taken by the unit's staff or social workers when Zoe asked for their help, and without anyone to support or protect her, the horrific abuse continued for the next few years, even after she left the unit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in her heart Zoe was always a fighter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the harrowing, yet uplifting story, of how she finally broke free of the abuse and neglect that destroyed her childhood and obtained justice for her years of suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308291731829,"sku":"9780008148041","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008148041_34b5d352-0b9d-4a2e-8957-0023d7c67d0a.jpg?v=1785658794"},{"product_id":"9780745955445","title":"The Parent`s Guide to Eating Disorders – What every parent needs to know","description":"At least 1.1 million people in the UK are affected by an eating disorder, with people aged 14-25 most at risk.    Books about eating disorders are often quite academic and aimed at the sufferer themselves. Very little is available for parents of sufferers. Jane Smith, director of Anorexia Bulimia Care charity has written this book, in collaboration with Care for the Family to provide practical advice for parents of eating disorder sufferers.    Jane draws on her own experience of helping her young daughter through an eating disorder as well as case studies of the many families ABC has helped over the years . Includes answers to the most frequently asked questions ABC receives from parents.    Supported by Care for the Family and includes a foreword by Rob Parsons.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311890968949,"sku":"9780745955445","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780745955445_0723be0f-ed9c-4a45-b872-dbfa3765682c.jpg?v=1786014749"},{"product_id":"mountain-of-peace","title":"The Mountain of Peace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Mountain of Peace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e takes you on a peaceful journey, from the autumn leaf that falls peacefully to the earth, to sitting in the presence of a peaceful mountain. Jane Smith takes her inspiration from nature, travel, life, trees, stones and mountains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeace weaves its way through the poems in this book, emphasising that peace can be experienced, discovered and felt on many paths in life if we can be still enough to feel the peace within us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat brings you peace? What does it mean to be at peace?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are invited to discover your own peace, and this book will inspire you to experience peace in your daily life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeace is here waiting for you! Feel it, hear it, touch it and, most of all, be it!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487955263861,"sku":"9781806342563","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781806342563.jpg?v=1786355180"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-jane-smith.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}