Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm

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Pan Macmillan, May 3, 2018 - Nature - 320 pages

‘A poignant, practical and moving story of how to fix our broken land, this should be conservation's salvation; this should be its future; this is a new hope’ – Chris Packham

Winner of the Richard Jefferies Society / White Horse Book Shop Award for Nature Writing


In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife.

Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, Wilding is, above all, an inspiring story of hope.

Highly Commended by the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing

'One of the landmark ecological books of the decade' – The Sunday Times

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About the author (2018)

Isabella Tree is an award-winning author, travel writer, and owner of the the Knepp Wildland Project, together with her husband the conservationist Charlie Burrell. She is the author of several books, including Wilding, The Living Goddess and The Bird Man.