Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Award for Nature Writing'Excellent . . . Anyone who is interested in how we share the planet - what it looks like, what we eat, and what nature can teach us - should read this book.' Sunday Times'A hugely important addition to the literature of what can be done to restore soil and soul' Guardian'This must be the most inspirational nature book of the year . . . a narrative of conservation, courage, vision and miracles . . . Read this book and marvel.' Bel Mooney, Daily Mail, 'The Year's Best Books on Nature''This joyful, poignant memoir tells the story of exhausted land becoming a rich ecosystem again, and in doing so, forces us to rethink farming' The Times, 'Books of the Year: Nature''A passionately personal, robustly argued and uplifting book . . . One of the landmark ecological books of the decade.' Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year'

Section - i: Timeline Section - ii: Map of the Knepp estate Introduction - iii: Introduction Chapter - 1: Meeting a Remarkable Man under a Remarkable Tree Chapter - 2: At Odds with Everything Chapter - 3: The Serengeti Effect Chapter - 4: The Secret of Grazing Animals Chapter - 5: A World of Wood Pasture Chapter - 6: Wild Ponies, Pigs and Longhorn Cattle Chapter - 7: Creating a Mess Chapter - 8: Living with the Yellow Peril Chapter - 9: Painted Ladies and the Perfect Storm Chapter - 10: Purple Emperors Chapter - 11: Nightingales Chapter - 12: Turtle Doves Chapter - 13: Rewilding the River Chapter - 14: Bringing Back the Beaver Chapter - 15: Pasture-fed Chapter - 16: Rewilding the Soil Chapter - 17: The Value of Nature Section - iv: Appendix: Knepp Wildland Advisory Board Section - v: Sources Section - vi: Bibliography Acknowledgements - vii: Acknowledgements Index - viii: Index Section - ix: List of Illustrations