Earthworks
Land and Nature in Uncertain Times
Lloyd has packed the explosives, lit the fuse and lobbed in our direction the bravest and boldest volume of Nature writing this century. This is fearless writing at its Orwellian best.
— Mark Cocker
Award-winning Lake District based nature writer and academic
Karen Lloyd is an author, academic and activist from the Lake District. Her work explores the complex relationships between human communities and natural environments, drawing on being out in the field, scientific research and literature.
Karen brings a unique perspective combining research and lived experience with accessible prose. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications and has been recognised with several awards.
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Earthworks
Land and Nature in Uncertain Times
£12.99
Praise of Karen Lloyd
If everyone thought as deeply as Karen Lloyd does about our complex relationship with nature, the world would be a far better place. Wisely observed and powerfully expressed, these essays form a map to navigate the anthropocene.
— Lee Schofield | Author of Wild Places
In Earthworks, Karen Lloyd again confirms herself as one of our most vital and ambitious writers on nature and place… Few writers evoke so powerfully, and so personally, both the wounds and the wonder of the living world.
— Professor Ian Convery |
IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management Vice Chair
In this brilliant collection… Lloyd's writing is realistic, unsentimental, and refuses any romanticisation of 'nature' but, at the same time, evinces a deep love of, and respect for the environment in all its complexities.
— Professor Charlie Gere | Lancaster University
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