HIGHLY COMMENDED: Otherlands : A World in the Makingby Dr Thomas Halliday (Allen Lane) and On Gallows Down: Place, Protest and Belonging by Nicola Chester (Chelsea Green Publishing). WINNER: Goshawk Summer: The Diary of an Extraordinary Season in the Forest by James Aldred (Elliott & Thompson). THE 2022 JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE WINNERS ARE: A £7,500 prize fund will be shared by the authors of the three winning books, with each receiving a specially commissioned original artwork by paper artist, Helen Musselwhite. Now in its ninth year, the prize is named after much-loved nature writer Alfred Wainwright and is awarded annually to the books which most successfully inspire readers to explore the outdoors and to nurture a respect for the natural world. The ceremony included panel discussions with the shortlistees across all three award categories: Nature Writing, Writing on Conservation, and Children’s Writing, before the winners were announced by their respective Chairs of Judges, TV presenters Ray Mears, Charlotte Smith and Gemma Hunt.
Nesbit questions the motives behind what we fight to save, in an examination of what we should conserve and why.On Wednesday 7 th September 2022: The winners of the three categories of the 2022 JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE were announced at a ceremony at the London Wetland Centre. As the current rate of extinction starts to resemble the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, conservationists appear to be fighting a losing battle. While these distinct ecosystems appeared stable for millions of years, their disappearance is a reminder of the both the fragility and tenacity of the natural world.Ĭhange and survival are at the centre of the writer and ecologist, Rebecca Nesbit’s book, Tickets for the Ark. In his new book Otherlands: A World in the Making he uses the latest technology and fossil records to examine ancient landscapes – from the mammoth steppe in Ice Age Alaska to the lush rainforests of Eocene Antarctica, with its colonies of giant penguins. The palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday looks even further back in deep time to reveal the Earth as it used to exist.
The curator Neil Wilkin tells Adam Rutherford about one of the objects on show – the metal Nebra Sky Disc – which is the world’s oldest surviving map of the sky. A new exhibition at the British Museum looks at the human story behind the stones, and offers new insights into the beliefs, rituals and worldview of our Neolithic ancestors. Stonehenge is one of Britain’s most iconic monuments: an ancient stone circle still shrouded in layers of speculation and folklore.
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