A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR ' Beautifully written movingly told and meticulously
researched ... a convincing plea for a wilder richer world' Isabella Tree author of Wilding
'By the time I'd read the first chapter I'd resolved to take my son into the woods every
afternoon over winter. By the time I'd read the sixth I was wanting to break prisoners out of
cells and onto the mossy moors. Losing Eden rigorously and convincingly tells of the value of
the natural universe to our human hearts' Amy Liptrot author of The Outrun Today many of us
live indoor lives disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature remains
deeply ingrained in our language culture and consciousness. For centuries we have acted on an
intuitive sense that we need communion with the wild to feel well. Now in the moment of our
great migration away from the rest of nature more and more scientific evidence is emerging to
confirm its place at the heart of our psychological wellbeing. So what happens asks acclaimed
journalist Lucy Jones as we lose our bond with the natural world-might we also be losing part
of ourselves? Delicately observed and rigorously researched Losing Eden is an enthralling
journey through this new research exploring how and why connecting with the living world can
so drastically affect our health. Travelling from forest schools in East London to the Svalbard
Global Seed Vault via primeval woodlands Californian laboratories and ecotherapists' couches
Jones takes us to the cutting edge of human biology neuroscience and psychology and discovers
new ways of understanding our increasingly dysfunctional relationship with the earth. Urgent
and uplifting Losing Eden is a rallying cry for a wilder way of life - for finding asylum in
the soil and joy in the trees - which might just help us to save the living planet as well as
ourselves.
