num_pages: 239
description: A ground breaking new book from the author of The Running Sky and Four Fields Landfill confronts our waste-making species through the extraordinary and fascinating life of gulls and the people who watch them. Original compelling and unflinching it is the nature book for our times.We think of gulls as pests. They steal our chips and make newspaper headlines these animals often derided as bin chickens are complex neighbours making the most of our throw away species. In the Anthropocene they are a surprising success story. Theyve become intertwined with us precisely because we are so good at making rubbish. Landfill is a book that avoids nostalgia and eulogy for nature and instead kicks beneath the littered surface to find stranger and more inspiring truths.Landfill is the compelling story of how we have worked the rest of the living world learned about it named and catalogued it colonised and planted it and filled it with our rubbish.
language: English
title: Landfill
publisher: Little Toller Books