{"product_id":"tom-moorhouse-elegy-for-a-river-whiskers-claws-and-conservations-last-wild-hope","title":"Tom Moorhouse: Elegy For a River. Whiskers, Claws and Conservation's Last, Wild Hope","description":"Water voles are small, brownish, bewhiskered and charming. Made famous by 'Ratty' in The Wind in the Willows, once they were a ubiquitous part of our waterways. They were a totem of our rivers. Now, however, they are nearly gone. This is their story, and the story of a conservationist with a wild hope: that he could bring them back.\n\nTom Moorhouse spent eleven years beside rivers, fens, canals, lakes and streams, researching British wildlife. Quite a lot of it tried to bite him. He studied four main species - two native and endangered, two invasive and endangering - beginning with water voles. He wanted to solve their conservation problems. He wanted to put things right.\n\nThis book is about whether it worked, and what he learnt - and about what those lessons mean, not just for water voles but for all the world's wildlife. It is a book for anyone who has watched ripples spread on lazy waters, and wondered what moves beneath. Or who has waited in quiet hope for a rustle in the reeds, the munch of a stem, or the patter of unseen paws.","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53103881486652,"sku":"oicxpoz8v8nazy1l1aj0e75m","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/3468\/5756\/files\/9781529176728-1.jpg?v=1780454600","url":"https:\/\/knizhka.us\/products\/tom-moorhouse-elegy-for-a-river-whiskers-claws-and-conservations-last-wild-hope","provider":"Книжка US","version":"1.0","type":"link"}