{"product_id":"9781473511286","title":"Linescapes: Remapping and Reconnecting Britain's Fragmented Wildlife","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected as a Book of the Year 2017 in the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e‘This is a beautifully crafted book . . . timely and essential reading’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eKathy Willis, Director of Science, Kew Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is rare to find a landscape untouched by our lines\u003c\/b\u003e – the hedges, walls, ditches and dykes built to enclose and separate; and the green lanes, roads, canals, railways and power lines, designed to connect. This vast network of lines has transformed our landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLinescapes\u003c\/i\u003e, Hugh Warwick unravels the far-reaching ecological consequences of the lines we have drawn: as our lives and our land were being fenced in and threaded together, so wildlife habitats have been cut into ever smaller, and increasingly unviable, fragments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHugh Warwick has travelled across the country to explore this linescape from the perspective of our wildlife and to understand how, with a manifesto for reconnection, we can help our flora and fauna to flourish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinescapes\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh and bracing perspective on Britain’s countryside, one that proposes a challenge and gives ground for hope\u003c\/b\u003e; for while nature does not tend to straight lines and discrete borders, our lines can and do contain a real potential for wildness and for wildlife.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107768254704,"sku":"9781473511286","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781473511286_p0.jpg?v=1763601807","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781473511286","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}