Instead it was highly predictable in that she had it "groomed" and suddenly everyone is happy with it. Derek Gow is a freelance ecologist who has worked with beavers and water voles in Britain for over 20 years. Derek Gow is a man after my own heart, with no interest in diplomacy, but with single-minded determination and a clear vision: to bring beavers back, and to bring nature back, to Britain. Derek Gow might be the most colorful character in all of Beaverdom – a wry, profane truth teller who is equal parts yeoman farmer, historical ecologist, and pirate.

But now the beaver is on the brink of a comeback, with wild beaver populations, licensed and unlicensed, emerging all over Britain. Wherever she goes, it seems to be the centre of attention, more for its bushy coat than for any other reason. To get started you’ll need to contact us with your book’s detailed synopsis, your ideas, key themes, and preferred style. She is Field Operations Manager for the Scottish Beaver Trial and is currently undertaking her PhD in beaver health and welfare.

Gow tells us this with the clear-sighted and good-humoured energy and purposefulness of the animals he has come to love as well as admire. Bringing Back the Beaver is a swashbuckling saga whose banks overflow with semi-legal hijinks, ribald jokes and hard-won scientific insight. In no way would I ever read this to a kid like some of the below comments suggest, but it would make a great gag gift. Though this book showed how we should also consider the opinion or suggestions of other people, what you still feel about yourself matter the most. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Whilst the kids might see the story as the perfectly innocent adventure of a cheeky beaver in need of a trim, the grown ups will be trying their hardest to keep their laughs under control!Yet as proposals for reintroducing beavers are underway, re-establishing the beaver in Britain is still a controversial issue. She is the author of The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing (2012) and has curated natural history exhibits for the Museum of Vancouver and the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia. Our son loves this book, at the same time us adults can laugh and have a great time reading it to him. I saw this book shared in a series of Facebook posts and my boyfriend and I laughed our heads off reading it together. Derek Gow assails officialdom in this unsparing and funny memoir, recounting the long struggle to bring wild beavers back to Britain.

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Rachel Poliquin’s Beaver explores the fascinating history of this small, often-overlooked, yet important animal and examines why the beaver has been hunted throughout the years, as well as looks at the unique way in which beavers form their societies. He graduated from Newcastle University, where he learnt a bit about media and a lot about living without heating.