Feral (Monbiot book) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-04

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00:02:48 2 Intended reader
00:03:23 3 Content Format
00:03:44 3.1 Author's Intent and Purpose of Book
00:04:37 4 Awards
00:05:23 5 Outcomes



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Feral is a book about rewilding by the British environmentalist George Monbiot. It was published by Allen Lane (a hardback imprint of the Penguin Group) in 2013 with the full title Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding. The book has also been published  as Feral: rewilding the land, sea and human life (paperback and American editions).Monbiot looks at rewilding projects around the world.  However, he pays particular attention to the scope for rewilding in the United Kingdom.
He argues that overgrazing is a problem in the British uplands and calls for sheep numbers to be reduced so that areas can be rewilded. Such ideas received criticism from organisations representing farmers, for example the Farmers' Union of Wales.
On the other hand, the book received favourable reviews, including in publications normally hostile to Monbiot's work, such as The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph. Many reviewers were impressed by the lyrical nature of the book's prose style. According to the New Statesman's reviewer "something about the charm and persistence of Monbiot’s argument has the hypnotic effect of a stoat beguiling a hapless rabbit".