Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Mans Quest to Rewild Britains Waterways

“Derek Gow might be the most colorful character in all of Beaverdom.”—Ben Goldfarb, author of Eager

"Gow’s triumph has been the reintroduction of the Eurasian beaver."—The New Yorker

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 the single most dramatic and subversive nature conservation act of the modern era. Since the early 1990s—in the face...