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Regeneration

The Rescue of a Wild Land

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Regeneration

By: Andrew Painting
Narrated by: Roger Clark
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Summary

In 1995, the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. Home to over 5,000 species, this vast expanse of Caledonian woodlands, subarctic mountains, bogs, moors, roaring burns, and frozen lochs could be a place where environmental conservation and Highland field sports would exist in harmony. The only problem was that due to centuries of abuse by human hands, the ancient Caledonian pinewoods were dying, and it would take radical measures to save them.

After 25 years of extremely hard work, the pinewoods, bogs, moors, and mountains are returning to their former glory. Regeneration is the story of this success, featuring not only the people who are protecting the land and quietly working to undo the wrongs of the past, but also the myriad creatures which inspire them to do so.

In addition, it also tackles current controversies such as raptor persecution, deer management and rewilding and asks bigger questions about the nature of conservation itself: What do we see when we look at our wild places? What should we see?

©2021 Andrew Painting (P)2021 Tantor Ecology Environment Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Rural Science Sociology Conservation
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Really loved the book, such an important message and story. The narrator took some getting used to and found his pronunciation of many words absurd.

Great book, dodgy narration

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A very well written, interesting, enjoyable and informative book. The only thing bringing it down is the narration - which isn't bad, but I found the rather posh sounding English man misponouncing Scottish names, including very basic ones that come up many times such as the Cairngorms, off-putting and a poor choice for this particular book. If I remember rightly the author himself is English, so that itself isn't an issue, but not learning how to pronounce the names of the places in the book properly felt rude and oblivious.

A good book, but a poor choice of narrator.

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The book takes you on a vivid minds-eye journey to a remote corner of Britain. The prose is beautiful and the science is rigorous but the there are simply too many jarring moments when the reader, who otherwise has an excellent theatrical voice, mispronounces relatively common words like 'eyrie', 'goshawk' or 'fritillary' Even the totally everyday word 'ant' is pronounced weirdly to sound like your mother's sister. I still recommend the audiobook, but wonder if more corrective feedback could have been given to the reader.

A great book but its reading is flawed

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Wonderful book so interesting and well written. Sad that another RP narrator doesn’t bother to look up how to pronounce Scottish place names. I wish publishers would insist on this.

A must for Scots interested in their environment

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Narrator mispronouncing Scottish hill/place names ruined it a little. Otherwise it was quite an interesting book.

It was ok

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