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The findings are clear: we are suffering, and nature is too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter ‘Wild Service’ – a visionary concept crafted by the pioneers of the Right to Roam campaign, which argues that humanity’s loss and nature’s need are two sides of the same story. Blending science, nature writing and indigenous philosophy, this groundbreaking book calls for mass reconnection to the land and a commitment to its restoration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWild Service \u003c\/i\u003ewe meet Britain’s new nature defenders: an anarchic cast of guerilla guardians who neither own the places they protect, nor the permission to restore them. Still, they’re doing it anyway. This book is a celebration of their spirit and a call for you to join. So, whether you live in the countryside or the city, want to protect your local river or save our native flora, \u003cb\u003ethis is your invitation to rediscover the power in participation – the sacred in your service.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55206293438837,"sku":"9781526673329","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781526673329_eef944ad-fab0-4bdf-99e2-53bddb19a882.jpg?v=1786021694"},{"product_id":"9780224097314","title":"Woody Guthrie","description":"\u003cp\u003eForged in the Dustbowl of the 1930s, in an America crippled by the Great World Recession, this humble man found solace in song, and soon those songs became the voice of the People – men and women who had seen their lives deracinated and destroyed by the vicissitudes of global economic forces beyond their control. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuthrie’s influence lives on, a touchstone for Bob Dylan, The Clash and the protest singers of the Occupy movement today. With a delighted eye, and an ear for a tune, Nick Hayes’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eRime of the Modern Mariner\u003c\/i\u003e brings a legend to life with a generous spirit and crackling moral force its subject would have been proud of.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56228065804661,"sku":"9780224097314","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780224097314_f9e5e185-52b0-4267-bc24-0cc0a6b3f405.jpg?v=1786012188"},{"product_id":"9781526646453","title":"The Trespasser's Companion","description":"\u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eThe countryside ought to be for everyone, and this beautiful, thoughtful companion can help us all start to forge paths into the forgotten corners of our green, pleasant and often inaccessible land\u003c\/b\u003e' Catrina Davies, author of \u003ci\u003eHomesick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Trespasser’s Companion\u003c\/i\u003e is a rallying cry for greater public access to nature and a gently seditious guide to how to get it: by trespassing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are excluded from the majority of our land and waterways in England, but bestselling writer Nick Hayes shows how reclaiming our connection to nature would be better both for us, and for nature. By stepping over the fences that bar us from the countryside, by engaging more deeply with nature through craft, education, and citizen science, we can rediscover not only a land that has been hidden from us for too long, but also reignite our collective responsibility to protect it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterwoven are testimonials from expert contributors – farmers and landworkers, activists and authors – each with deeply personal stories of what a connection to nature means for them. With exquisite woodcut illustrations throughout, this is both a love letter to our land and a call to action.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eThe Trespasser's Companion is many things at once: a how-to guide; a spell book; a call to arms\u003c\/b\u003e' Kerri Andrews, author of \u003ci\u003eWanderers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302433894773,"sku":"9781526646453","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781526646453_acf79d2a-eee8-465c-bfd7-7cef5c9ba0fe.jpg?v=1786022243"},{"product_id":"9781910702062","title":"The Drunken Sailor","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Drunken Sailor \u003c\/i\u003etraces the life of Arthur Rimbaud: poet, surrealist, libertine and gun runner. In dazzling artwork, Nick Hayes follows Rimbaud from his youth in Ardennes to the poetry salons of Paris, from the absinthe-glazed passion of his relationship with Verlaine to his flight into the jungles of Indonesia and the deserts of Yemen and Egypt. Told entirely in Rimbaud’s own words, from a new translation of \u003ci\u003eLe bateau ivre\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Drunken Sailor\u003c\/i\u003e confirms Nick Hayes’ place as one of the most talented graphic novelists at work today.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308501086581,"sku":"9781910702062","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781910702062_32a1fd8a-31b1-478d-9756-fed622078db0.jpg?v=1786028990"},{"product_id":"9781526604729","title":"The Book of Trespass","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Brilliant, passionate and political . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Trespass\u003c\/i\u003e will make you see landscapes differently' Robert Macfarlane\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A remarkable and truly radical work, loaded with resonant truths' George Monbiot\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe vast majority of our country is entirely unknown to us because we are banned from setting foot on it. By law of trespass, we are excluded from 92 per cent of the land and 97 per cent of its waterways, blocked by walls whose legitimacy is rarely questioned. But behind them lies a story of enclosure, exploitation and dispossession of public rights whose effects last to this day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Trespass\u003c\/i\u003e takes us on a journey over the walls of England, into the thousands of square miles of rivers, woodland, lakes and meadows that are blocked from public access. 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The tree, he would discover, was a hybrid of the eastern cottonwood, brought back from colonial Canada. The land was the Hardwick estate, whose apparently timeless tranquillity – like so much of the English countryside – masks a darker history. Yet Hardwick also tells another, quite different story.   Over the following months, Hayes learns that its rolling hills and fertile valleys are on the front lines of a battle between ownership and belonging. Through a golden autumn, and the frosts and floods of winter and early spring, Hayes explores an estate that, acknowledging the colonial origins of its wealth, has become a haven for those who are both unable and unwilling to be part of a countryside geared towards profit at any cost. Living and working among this extraordinary community of farmers and craftspeople, Hayes contemplates what we have lost in England, as our sense of kinship with the land, and the deep knowledge that arose from it, was destroyed.   Yet, Hayes suggests, if we can learn from the cultures we have exploited, and from the tentative roots being put down in this radical Oxfordshire estate, perhaps we can start to unpick – and even re-enchant – our relationship with the land. The Medicine Tree is a singular act of storytelling and recovery: of giants, gods, witches, trees, horror and hope, of entanglement, reparation and solidarity.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56420490281333,"sku":"9780241731321","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241731321.jpg?v=1791213277"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-nick-hayes.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}