The Moth Snowstorm

Nature and Joy

By: Michael McCarthy

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Michael McCarthy, one of Britain's leading writers on the environment, proposes this joy as a defence of a natural world which is ever more threatened and which, he argues, is inadequately served by the two defences put forward hitherto: sustainable development and the recognition of ecosystem services.

Drawing on a wealth of memorable experiences from a lifetime of watching and thinking about wildlife and natural landscapes, McCarthy presents a new way of looking at the world.

©2015 Michael McCarthy (P)2015 W F Howes Ltd

Critic reviews

"A great, rhapsodic, urgent book full of joy, grief, rage and love.... A must-read." (Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk)

"Impassioned, polemical and personal.... At its heart, this is a book aiming to persuade those who are broadly sympathetic to think in a different way, and in that it is surely a success - and a joy." ( Independent)

"Articulated beautifully...his quest to track down every British butterfly as a tribute to his dead mother brought me to tears." ( Sunday Times)

The art of wonder

An important book that journeyed between stories of the natural world and Michael McCarthy’s personal milestones. A book I will read again and maybe again to re experience the “aha” and “of course” moments of McCarthy’s exquisite observation of our species and the natural world. An account that reminds us what it is to feel joy, to feel wonder and mystery. And despite the extraordinary arrogance and stupidity of the species called Homosapiens I feel if we could all just read this book we might be ok.