Every in-library item filed under this tag, newest first, with its research summary and organization.
A turkey vulture glides on broad, outstretched wings over dark evergreen trees and dry coastal grassland. The wide expanse of clear blue sky gives the bird’s flight a feeling of solitude and effortless lift.
A large dark bird glides across an open blue sky, its broad wings lifted as it passes between stands of wind-shaped evergreens. The low scrub and dry grasses below frame the flight, emphasizing the quiet scale of the coastal landscape.
A loose formation of brown pelicans glides overhead, their broad wings and long bills silhouetted against a clear, open sky. The wide spacing between the birds emphasizes both their quiet coordination and the expansive coastal air around them.
Foaming surf spreads across the foreground beneath a broad blue sky, while waves rise and break farther offshore. A large flock of seabirds gathers above and along the waterline, with individual birds gliding across the frame and hundreds more forming a scattered horizon of motion.
White surf rolls onto a dark beach as waves surge around a jagged offshore rock formation. Seabirds circle above the choppy blue water, lending motion and scale to the rugged coastal scene at Sea Ranch, California.
Turquoise waves break in layers over a dark shoreline at Sea Ranch, California, while a flock of seabirds sweeps across the water and sky. Rocky outcrops and wind-shaped coastal trees frame the right edge of the scene, adding a rugged counterpoint to the open Pacific horizon.
Sophie Yeo praises Eloise Kane’s Wilderlands as a clear-eyed history of Britain’s long “dewilding” and a corrective to nostalgic ideas of an untouched natural past. Drawing on palaeoecology, recent scientific debates, and Kane’s fieldwork, the book traces how hunting, settlement, agriculture, and later development transformed the landscape from the post-Ice Age wildwood onward. Yeo especially values Kane’s caution in interpreting fragmentary evidence—from buried eagles to Seahenge—because modern ideas of wildness can distort what prehistoric people and places meant. That restraint gives the book contemporary force: archaeology, Yeo argues, must inform rewilding so future landscapes are not designed around nostalgia, guilt, marketable romance, or aesthetic preference alone.
