Working with Nature

Working With Nature is the story of a lifetime of work, often in extreme environments, to harvest nature and to protect it. Jeremy Purseglove offers fresh insights and solutions, taking a practical approach to sustaining the global landscape and protecting it from ruin

Author: Jeremy Purseglove
Publisher: Ips - Profile Books
Published: 09/28/2021
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781788161602

About the Author
Jeremy Purseglove was born in Africa and grew up in Singapore, Trinidad and Kent. Working as an environmentalist in the water industry, he helped pioneer a new approach to reducing floods which also preserved the beauty of rivers. This culminated in a TV series and influential book, Taming the Flood, first published in 1986 and revised in 2017. In 1989 he joined an engineering consultancy, where he worked around the world with engineers to promote practical development while enhancing wetlands, forests and flower-rich meadows.