Ancient: Reviving the Woods that Made Britain by Luke Barley #literature PenguinISBN: 9781405938020Extent: 416 pages

PenguinISBN: 9781405938020Extent: 416 pages

to the vast

consider it a place of refuge and solace in nature

and biologist Karin Resaint needs it for her own darker purposes

and name thousands of new species

Ancient: Reviving the Woods that Made Britain by Luke Barley #literature PenguinISBN: 9781405938020Extent: 416 pages'Passionate, knowledgeable and immersive' Tristan Gooley 'A wise and heartfelt love song to our woodlands' Lee Schofield Step into the woods, and discover the trees that made Britain. Ancient woods are Britain's richest habitats: rare fragments of our landscape that teem with life from soil to canopy. They live in our collective imagination as quiet places, best left pristine and untouched. But their story has always been one of interdependence with