A review by joymargot
Wilding by Isabella Tree

2.0

Yeesh. I’m all for rewilding and conservation but this was absolutely dripping with privilege, condescension, arrogance and self-righteousness. Sure, there’s a few interesting tidbits sandwiched between wildly dull rambling paragraphs and Tree’s classist, ableist and xenophobic remarks.

I found the “pasture-fed” chapter particularly distasteful. Tree at one point refers to deer as “free-roaming protein” and assures us that eating Dartmoor ponies has “given them a new lease of life” 🧐

If you’d like to read a less offensive book about nature, I can’t recommend Braiding Sweetgrass highly enough.
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