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200 10$aSilent fields$b[electronic resource] $ethe long decline of a nation's wildlife /$fRoger Lovegrove line illustrations by Ross Lovegrove
210   $aOxford $cOxford University Press$dc2007
215   $a1 online resource (417 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-19-852071-9 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aContents; Introduction; 1. Lost animals: early eliminations by Man; 2. The social background to persecution; 3. To kill a Rat or catch a Kite: methods of control; 4. Killing in Scotland; 5. In on the Act-searching the record; 6. Birds-individual species accounts; 7. Mammals-individual species accounts; 8. Local patterns of persecution: England and Wales; 9. The return of the natives; 10. Modern control-legal and illegal; 11. Vermin control and wildlife management: where next?; Appendix 1: Summary table of vermin payments extracted from churchwardens' accounts
327   $aAppendix 2: Scientific names of species mentioned in the textReferences; Index
330   $aSince time immemorial mankind has taken it upon himself to wage war against nature -- against those species of birds and mammals which he believes conflict with his livelihood. This remarkable book documents the history of that battle in England and Wales from the Middle Ages, shedding a new light on the history of our much-loved wildlife. - ;Since time immemorial mankind has taken it upon himself to wage war against nature -- against those species of birds and mammals which he believes conflict with his livelihood. This remarkable book is about that war of attrition against the native mammals
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