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Silent Earth
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  • Published: 20 September 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529114423
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $30.00

Silent Earth

Averting the Insect Apocalypse

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5 Aug 2021
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5 Aug 2021
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20 Sept 2022
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An urgent and compelling new book from the bestselling author: his first major work of popular science and environmental activism - part love letter to the insect world, part elegy, part rousing manifesto for change.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022**

We have to learn to live as part of nature, not apart from it. And the first step is to start looking after the insects, the little creatures that make our shared world go round.

Insects are essential for life as we know it - without them, our world will slowly grind to a halt. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research and a lifetime's study, Dave Goulson reveals the shocking decline of insect populations that has taken place in recent decades and the potentially catastrophic consequences.

Eye-opening and inspiring, Silent Earth is a call to arms for profound change at every level and a passionate argument or us to love, respect and care for our six-legged friends.

'Compelling, penetrating, devastating - Silent Earth is a wake-up call for the world.' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding

'Read this book, then look and wonder' Sunday Times
  • Published: 20 September 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529114423
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $30.00
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About the author

Dave Goulson

Dave Goulson is Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex. He has published more than 300 scientific articles on the ecology and conservation of bumblebees and other insects. His books include the Sunday Times bestsellers The Garden Jungle and A Sting in the Tale, which was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize and has been translated into fifteen languages. He is an Ambassador for the UK Wildlife Trusts, the National Allotment Society and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust.

DG

Also by Dave Goulson

The Garden Jungle
A Sting in the Tale
Bee Quest
Gardening for Bumblebees
A Buzz in the Meadow
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