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Product details
- ISBN 9781472993632
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2024
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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‘A cracking read.’ IOLO WILLIAMS
‘What an incredible achievement!’ ALISON STEADMAN
‘An inspirational odyssey.’ NICK BAKER
'Immediately accessible.' BBC COUNTRYFILE
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Mike Dilger's nationwide quest to find 1,000 wild plant species in a single year.
For most of 2020, Mike Dilger’s day-job of travelling to the four corners of the British Isles all but disappeared. Having been confined to one place by the Covid pandemic, and with daily dog walks his sole permitted outdoor pursuit, the simple pleasure of getting to know the flowers at his feet reignited a long-buried botanical passion.
Now Mike is on a mission: to see a thousand different wild plants in one calendar year, and assess how our fascinating flora is faring in modern Britain.
From Cornwall to Kent and Breckland to the Scottish Highlands, Mike meets the resilient reserve wardens and courageous conservationists tasked with protecting some of the nation’s richest botanical sites, and experiences first-hand the many difficulties associated with saving our rarest and most charismatic plants.
Taking in city centres, mountain tops and every conceivable habitat in between, One Thousand Shades of Green is a manifesto on how to love and conserve our green and pleasant land, and celebrates the beauty and diversity of the nation’s plants.
MIKE DILGER is one of wildlife TV’s best-known presenters in his role as resident wildlife reporter on The One Show. With degrees in Botany and Ecology, Mike spent many years in the rainforests of Ecuador, Vietnam and Tanzania, before returning home to reacquaint himself with his first love – British wildlife.
Mike is also a columnist for BBC Wildlife magazine and a reporter on BBC Radio 4’s Costing the Earth; his expertise and infectious enthusiasm see him pontificating on everything from bumblebees to basking sharks.
