WORKING WITH NATURE

The story of a lifetime of work, often in extreme conditions, both to harvest nature's bounty and to protect it from exploitation. A pioneer of environmentally sensitive engineering projects in Britain and around the world, Jeremy Purseglove takes us from cocoa farming in Ghana to the orchards of Kent, and the palm oil plantations of Borneo to the cotton fields which have drained the Aral Sea. In each location, he shows how taking a practical approach to sustaining the landscape means the difference between prosperity and ruin - for us all.