- Published: 25 March 2021
- ISBN: 9781473575660
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
Elegy For a River
Whiskers, Claws and Conservation’s Last, Wild Hope
- Published: 25 March 2021
- ISBN: 9781473575660
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
It flows from the heart, eddies with fascinating information, and runs cool and clear with concern about the state of our rivers. They now have their champion.
John Lewis-Stempel
Beautiful and important. Tom's book is extraordinary in its gentle curiosity and sympathy for his subjects. In Elegy for a River he takes us back to our childhoods. He then holds our confused moral compass up to a microscope to make us realise that only a return to that place can save us. I love this book.
Sir Tim Smit KBE, Executive Vice-Chairman and Co-founder of the Eden Project
What a book. It has everything I love. It is lively, it is tender, it is fascinating, it starts small and very particular, and then - my God - by the end you are doing the Hallelujah chorus. It feels such an important book and I hope that everyone reads it. It seems to me to deliver on the greatest thing a book can achieve - when, through reading, you feel changed and inspired to act.
Rachel Joyce, author of Miss Benson's Beetle and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Tom Moorhouse has written a book about ecological loss that is also 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
Small is beautiful. That goes for conservation, too. Tom Moorhouse doesn't chase tigers and elephants; he gets bitten by water voles. He doesn't big up the case for saving the Amazon; he pleads for the tiny streams and forgotten pools where his voles swim and scamper. Elegy for a River is an unabashed love story about a soggy, decade-long adventure into the heart of the watery English countryside, in search of his wild, wonderful and sharp-toothed obsession. A joy.
Fred Pearce, author of WHEN THE RIVERS RUN DRY
What an enjoyable book! It is such a rare pleasure to read environmental science and smile at the same time. Tom Moorhouse achieves something that few nature writers manage, he gets the whole message across by being good company.
Tristan Gooley, The Natural Navigator
A fascinating story of ecology and fieldwork that is both funny and furious. Moorhouse has written an elegy not just for the rivers he loves, but also for life on earth.
Hugh Warwick, author of A Prickly Affair: The Charm of the Hedgehog
Oh my ears and whiskers. I loved this... Self-deprecating humour combines with a paean to the wonders of creation, hard facts and hope for an imperilled species.
Saga
Book of the Week
Country Life
BOOK OF THE WEEK: 'particularly enjoyable'
Roland White, Daily Mail
What an enjoyable book! It is such a rare pleasure to read environmental science and smile at the same time. Tom Moorhouse achieves something that few nature writers manage, he gets the whole message across by being good company.
Tristan Gooley, The Natural Navigator