{"product_id":"the-moth-snowstorm-nature-and-joy","title":"Michael McCarthy: The Moth Snowstorm [2016] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA great, rhapsodic, urgent book full of joy, grief, rage and love . . . A must-read' Helen Macdonald, author of \u003ci\u003eH is for Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNature has many gifts for us, but perhaps the greatest of them all is joy; the intense delight we can take in the natural world, in its beauty, in the wonder it can offer us, in the peace it can provide - feelings stemming ultimately from our own unbreakable links to nature, which mean that we cannot be fully human if we are separate from it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Moth Snowstorm\u003c\/i\u003e Michael McCarthy, one of Britain's leading writers on the environment, proposes this joy as a defence of a natural world which is ever more threatened, and which, he argues, is inadequately served by the two defences put forward hitherto: sustainable development and the recognition of ecosystem services.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a wealth of memorable experiences from a lifetime of watching and thinking about wildlife and natural landscapes, \u003ci\u003eThe Moth Snowstorm\u003c\/i\u003e not only presents a new way of looking at the world around us, but effortlessly blends with it a remarkable and moving memoir of childhood trauma from which love of the natural world emerged. It is a powerful, timely, and wholly original book which comes at a time when nature has never needed it more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mccarthy, Michael","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":49365783511379,"sku":"XV81444792799","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/mccarthy-michael-the-moth-snowstorm-nature-and-joy-xv81444792799-58776001937747.jpg?v=1727975823","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/the-moth-snowstorm-nature-and-joy","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}