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On the Marsh
  • ISBN: 9781471168512
  • Pages: 352
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Binding: Paperback

On the Marsh

A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet

Simon Barnes
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When Simon Barnes heard a Cetti’s warbler sing out as he turned up to look at a house for sale, he knew immediately that he had found his new home. The fact that his garden backed onto an area of marshy land only increased the possibilities, but there was always the fear that it might end up in the wrong hands and be lost to development or intensive farming.

On the Marsh is the story of rewilding this marshland to attract new species and details the ups and downs of cultivating an ecosystem of new animals and plants.



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