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Land Healer
- How Farming Can Save Britain’s Countryside
- Narrated by: Jake Fiennes
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Our relationship with our land is broken: we must heal it.
Jake Fiennes is on a mission to change the face of the English countryside. As conservation manager at Holkham in Norfolk, one of the country's largest historic country estates, his radical habitat restoration and agricultural work has nurtured its species and risen its crop yields—bringing back wetlands, hedgerows, birds and butterflies over 25,000 acres of land.
But this isn't rewilding—there is no 'wild' in Britain anymore. Mass farming, crop science and industrial chemicals have destroyed the majority of our natural landscape and wildlife over the last century. Land Healer is the story of Fiennes' ambition to bring back our flora and fauna—by reclaiming our traditions and trialling new experiments which could restore our symbiosis with our land, and save our shared future.
Following the farming year and the natural cycle of the seasons, Land Healer chronicles a life of conservation lived at the edges, and is a manifesto for rethinking our relationship with the natural world before it's too late.
Critic reviews
"One of the motive forces behind this new way of looking at the land." (Tony Juniper, chair of Natural England)
"Jake Fiennes is changing the face of farming in Britain...a revolutionising force." (Isabella Tree)
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- Nick Thompson
- 09-03-23
Excellent review of British and Norfolk farming
An excellent audiobook for all those interested in regenerative agriculture in the UK. Especially centred in Norfolk Jake Fiennes gives a fascinating firsthand account of how agriculture and ecology can work together. If you are an ornithologist or have any interest in birds, then this is a must. Enjoyable book. Jake does very well to narrate his own book considering his dyslexia. However, it results in a certain slightly disjointed sentence delivery sometimes. I take my hat off to him for narrating his book nonetheless.
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- B&B man
- 08-07-23
Fascinating
We did enjoy this. It is a good insight into how rewilding can work on farms and estates. Sometimes just a slight change of tact can make a big difference to the wildlife. We all need to be more aware of our surroundings and this book demonstrates it clearly.
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- George Gallagher
- 19-09-22
stilted narration, once you get into it it's good
mostly I prefer authors reading their books but due to Jake's serious dyslexia, I think a voice actor might've been a better choice as his narration is very stilted. Once I got used to it and accepted listening at a slower pace, it was an interesting book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-01-23
A valuable study from wonderful north Norfolk
Thank you Jake for sharing your expertise and story with us. I enjoyed the listen on a long car journey and the slow pace of the reading worked well for me. It harbours some valuable insights and left me with hope and gives practical solutions to landowners, as we all face the huge and overwhelming dilemma of habitat loss and environmental emergency. Jake has listened and observed the land closely, making positive changes at 'the edge' of north Norfolk. Now we need landowners to collaborate and facilitate changes for a better future.
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- Anthony Ballance
- 17-03-24
Great book poor narration
Very good description of the countryside and pressures on it. However, the narration was difficult to listen to. Slurred words and not sticking to the punctuation. I stuck with it and I enjoyed the book, but it would’ve been better to have been narrated by someone other than the author. Sorry. I enjoyed the book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-02-24
farmer get reading.... !
Farmers with a mind to changing the way the they farm , too providing a place for wildlife to return. Should put this book on their shelf .
encouraging instruction.
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- EDWARD SILVER
- 21-08-22
Great Listen
Informative and openly honest reflection on what we all need to consider, so we can integrate and begin or continue open discussions to support our dwelling places here on earth.
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- Chris T.
- 06-02-24
NEVER LISTEN TO THIS BOOK, READ IT!
Brilliant book appallingly badly read by the author. PLEASE re-record this with a performer as the book is excellent and needs to be widely read.
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- dawn
- 13-07-22
Excellent, highly recommended
A much needed view from the 'shop floor' on wildlife conservation farming. Lots of social history thrown in and an interesting life story of an obviously innovative switched on chap who has certainly lived!
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- veyza
- 22-10-23
Interesting content, poor reading
The interesting content will be of interest to those engaged in UK conservation but the stumbling reading spoils the overall effect.
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