Walk & talk book club - Nature's Ghosts with Sophie Yeo | Sunday 10 August, 4-6pm

Coming up next in our NEW KIND OF BOOK CLUB strand... WALK & TALK with author Sophie Yeo on her book, Nature's Ghosts! We'll take a walk in and around some of Durham's incredible green spaces and places, talking between ourselves and with Sophie about her award-winning book, before heading back to the shop to enjoy tea, cake, and even more conversation.

Tickets: £3.50 for admission only; £10.00 for admission + a copy of the book (RRP £10.99)

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Winner of the 2024 Richard Jefferies Award for nature writing; shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation; a Times Science Book of the Year

For thousands of years, humans have been the architects of the natural world. Our activities have permanently altered the environment - for better and for worse. Nature’s Ghosts 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, Sophie Yeo 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, she 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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For more information about this event, please get in touch! hello@collectedbooks.co.uk, via Instagram, or on 07897752541