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Steel River
Walking the Tees – A Journey Through Nature in a Human World
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Steve Nicholls makes an epic journey along the River Tees in north-east England, from the industrial complexes near its estuary to its source high in the Pennine Hills. The Tees estuary was where Steve’s life-long passion for nature was born, launching a long career as a...
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Steel River
An evocative and richly informative account of a journey along the river Tees, presenting its valley as a microcosm of an environmentally damaged and endangered world.
An evocative and richly informative account of a journey along the river Tees, presenting its valley as a microcosm of an environmentally damaged and endangered world.
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Description
Steve Nicholls makes an epic journey along the River Tees in north-east England, from the industrial complexes near its estuary to its source high in the Pennine Hills.
The Tees estuary was where Steve’s life-long passion for nature was born, launching a long career as a documentary maker. As he travels the length of the eighty-mile river, he uses his years of travelling the world and his work on nature films to place the fauna and flora he encounters along the Tees in a wider context.
He weaves together strands of personal experience, nature writing, botany, geology and history with an account of the impact of human industry and agriculture on the Tees and its valley. Steel River is thus a natural and social history of a remarkable river, but also presents the Tees as a universal exemplar of environmental degradation, allowing the author to reflect on – and offer prescriptions for – the broken state of the natural world after 10,000 years of human activity.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781804542613
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 06 March 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Apollo
Illustration: integrated b/w
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 38.0mm
Width: 158.0mm
Height: 236.0mm
Weight: 600g
Pages: 400
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About the Author
STEVE NICHOLLS is an award-winning television documentary producer and director based in Bristol. He holds a PhD in dragonflies from the University of Bristol and is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London. He has spent thirty years making wildlife films, including ten with the BBC Natural History Unit, and his plant photographs have won several awards in the prestigious International Garden Photographer of the Year competition. Nicholls is the author of Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery, Flowers of the Field: A Secret History of Meadow, Moor and Woodland and Plantet Insect: How Insects Conquered the Earth.
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