Reviews
"A fascinating and exhaustive study...Wide-ranging and meticulously researched, Silent Fields is undoubtedly an instant classic - a treasure trove of information about our ancestors' attitudes and their behaviors towards the realm of nature."--Mark Cocker, BBC Wildlife Magazine "[A] fascinating book... Silent Fields provides a remarkable analysis of the social history of wildlife and our changing attitudes to it...a scholarly yet readable account."--Tim Birkhead, Times Higher Education Supplement " Silent Fields was the book Lovegrove was born to write. His storytelling ability...shines through." -- Peter Ranscombe, The Scotsman (Critique) "An amazing picture..."Ground-breaking" is a much-overused word, but Lovegrove's sweeping and meticulous research is for once genuinely that, endlessly fascinating as well as being elegantly written." -- Michael McCarthy, The Independent (Review) "The book is much more than a lament for abandoned nests and empty burrows... Silent Fields is a marvellously detailed, hedge-skimming history of rural Britian with all its moral contradictions and complexities." -- Richard Girling, Sunday Times "This is a book of major importance and public interest tracing man's impact on wildlife since the 16th century. It culminates in posing the question: How do we manage our wildlife in modern Britian as part of the rural fabric and economy?" -- Lord Barber of Tewkesbury, former Chairman of the Countryside Commission and RSPB, The book is much more than a lament for abandoned nests and empty burrows...Silent Fields is a marvellously detailed, hedge-skimming history of rural Britain with all its moral contradictions and complexities., "A fascinating and exhaustive study...Wide-ranging and meticulously researched, Silent Fields is undoubtedly an instant classic - a treasure trove of information about our ancestors' attitudes and their behaviors towards the realm of nature."--Mark Cocker, BBC Wildlife Magazine "[A] fascinating book...Silent Fields provides a remarkable analysis of the social history of wildlife and our changing attitudes to it...a scholarly yet readable account."--Tim Birkhead, Times Higher Education Supplement "Silent Fields was the book Lovegrove was born to write. His storytelling ability...shines through." -- Peter Ranscombe, The Scotsman (Critique) "An amazing picture..."Ground-breaking" is a much-overused word, but Lovegrove's sweeping and meticulous research is for once genuinely that, endlessly fascinating as well as being elegantly written." -- Michael McCarthy, The Independent (Review) "The book is much more than a lament for abandoned nests and empty burrows...Silent Fields is a marvellously detailed, hedge-skimming history of rural Britian with all its moral contradictions and complexities." -- Richard Girling, Sunday Times "This is a book of major importance and public interest tracing man's impact on wildlife since the 16th century. It culminates in posing the question: How do we manage our wildlife in modern Britian as part of the rural fabric and economy?" -- Lord Barber of Tewkesbury, former Chairman of the Countryside Commission and RSPB "Lovegrove has provided a uniquely exhaustive review of wildlife management in Britain. We own him an enormous debt of gratitude; without his painstaking analysis none of us would have been aware this widescale clearance of our wildlife had ever happened."--Animal Welfare, [A] fascinating book...Silent Fields provides a remarkable analysis of the social history of wildlife and our changing attitudes to it...a scholarly yet readable account., A fascinating and exhaustive study...Wide-ranging and meticulously researched, Silent Fields is undoubtedly an instant classic - a treasure trove of information about our ancestors' attitudes and their behaviour towards the realm of nature., "A fascinating and exhaustive study...Wide-ranging and meticulously researched,Silent Fieldsis undoubtedly an instant classic - a treasure trove of information about our ancestors' attitudes and their behaviors towards the realm of nature."--Mark Cocker,BBC Wildlife Magazine "[A] fascinating book...Silent Fieldsprovides a remarkable analysis of the social history of wildlife and our changing attitudes to it...a scholarly yet readable account."--Tim Birkhead,Times Higher Education Supplement "Silent Fieldswas the book Lovegrove was born to write. His storytelling ability...shines through." -- Peter Ranscombe,The Scotsman (Critique) "An amazing picture..."Ground-breaking" is a much-overused word, but Lovegrove's sweeping and meticulous research is for once genuinely that, endlessly fascinating as well as being elegantly written." -- Michael McCarthy,The Independent (Review) "The book is much more than a lament for abandoned nests and empty burrows...Silent Fieldsis a marvellously detailed, hedge-skimming history of rural Britian with all its moral contradictions and complexities." -- Richard Girling,Sunday Times "This is a book of major importance and public interest tracing man's impact on wildlife since the 16th century. It culminates in posing the question: How do we manage our wildlife in modern Britian as part of the rural fabric and economy?" -- Lord Barber of Tewkesbury, former Chairman of the Countryside Commission and RSPB "Lovegrove has provided a uniquely exhaustive review of wildlife management in Britain. We own him an enormous debt of gratitude; without his painstaking analysis none of us would have been aware this widescale clearance of our wildlife had ever happened."--Animal Welfare, An amazing picture..."Ground-breaking" is a much-overused word, but Lovegrove's sweeping and meticulous research is for once genuinely that, endlessly fascinating as well as being elegantly written., 'This is a book of major importance and public interest tracing man's impact on wildlife since the 16th century. It culminates in posing the question: How do we manage our wildlife in modern Britain as part of the rural fabric and economy?'Lord Barber of Tewkesbury, former Chairman of the Countryside Commission and RSPB
