Soil av Matthew Evans

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''A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival'' Charles Massy, author of <i>Call of the Reed Warbler</i>. Perfect for fans of <i>Wilding</i> by Isabella Tree.<br><br>What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves.<br><br><i>Soil</i> is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and civilisations falling. Of ancient hunger, modern sicknesses and gastronomic delight. It features poison gas, climate collapse and a mind-blowing explanation of how rain is formed.<br><br>For too long, we''ve not only neglected the land beneath us, we''ve squandered and debased it, by over-clearing, over-grazing and over-ploughing. But if we want our food to nourish us, and to ensure our planet''s long-term health, we need to understand how soil works - how it''s made, how it''s lost, and how it can be repaired.<br><br>In this ode to the thin veneer of Earth that gifts us life, commentator and farmer Matthew