If You Build It, He Will Come

by Simon Curtin

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Pub Date Feb 27 2024 | Archive Date Jan 29 2024

Cranthorpe Millner Publishers

Biographies & Memoirs | Nonfiction (Adult) | Outdoors & Nature

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Description

If You Build It, He Will Come is the story of an eight-year project to bring the previously extinct osprey back to the beautiful Belvoir area of England, which culminated in a successful brood of two chicks in 2022, ending over two centuries of waiting.

Complete with personal observations, detailed knowledge and research – provided by osprey expert Dr Tim Mackrill, and many photographs of the project – taken during the author’s 120+ visits to the nesting platform, this memoir offers a unique insight into this uplifting story of persistence, collaboration and coincidences, whilst also acting as a meticulously detailed and complete, yet simple, start-to-finish guide for anyone contemplating such a project themselves.

Advance Praise

‘A book that carries an important message about how to make a difference in this world. I couldn't recommend it more highly.’

- Mark Cocker, multi-award-winning author and naturalist

‘Help the osprey to become a welcome bird all over Britain. Here’s how to do it!’

– Tony Soper, British naturalist and author

‘A must read for all those with a deep passion for nature conservation or the desire to replicate a similar venture – a unique illustration of the success that can be achieved with determination, collaboration, and tenacity.’

- Sally Mills, author of Island to Island

‘A book that carries an important message about how to make a difference in this world. I couldn't recommend it more highly.’

- Mark Cocker, multi-award-winning author and naturalist

‘Help the...