Elegy For a River: Whiskers, Claws and Conservation’s Last, Wild Hope by Tom Moorhouse #joyce she can shape his music

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Elegy For a River: Whiskers, Claws and Conservation’s Last, Wild Hope by Tom Moorhouse #joyce she can shape his musicWater voles are small, brownish, bewhiskered and charming. Made famous by 'Ratty' in The Wind in the Willows, once they were a ubiquitous part of our waterways. They were a totem of our rivers. Now, however, they are nearly gone. This is their story, and the story of a conservationist with a wild hope: that he could bring them back. Tom Moorhouse spent eleven years beside rivers, fens, canals, lakes and streams, researching British wildlife. Quite a