Wild Pavements (exploring cities with an urban naturalist)

Wild Pavements is a unique book, where a naturalist shares her delight on the overlooked and under-appreciated wildlife in England’s cities. She also meets people who care for urban wildlife, and explores what current thinking on ecology and conservation means for the future of urban nature.

Join Amanda as she explores London (from the city to the suburbs) and also visits Liverpool and Sheffield. And ventures over the border to Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Cardiff and Belfast. Exploring the diversity of urban nature.

From wild bees living in canal banks to black redstarts nesting in London’s Oxford Street, she also finds rare plants in pavement cracks and even fish struggling to survive in trolley-filled urban rivers. Noticing the wild world around you, may just change the way you think about our cities for good.

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Amanda Tuke is one of the most talented of a new generation of urban nature writers. Most important, she reaches out to a new cohort of readers who love plants and animals around them. By providing really helpful advice in beautifully written prose, she makes nature writing more accessible. Stephen Moss 

Tuke shares her knowledge from the history of parks to environmental planning. Stay in your city. Walk. Carry this book with you. Watch, listen, observe, enjoy. Esther Woolfson

About the Author

Amanda Tuke is an urban naturalist, botanist and nature writer, and associate lecturer for the MA in Nature & Travel Writing at Bath Spa University. She was also nature-writer-in-residence for London Wildlife Trust a few years ago.