Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways

Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously funny firsthand account of how the movement to rewild the British landscape with beavers has become th…

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