<p><b>A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK: ''particularly enjoyable''</b><br><b>''Somehow laugh-out-loud funny - passionate, warm and full of fascinating insights into the eccentric world of the field naturalist.'' - <i>Isabella Tree, author of Wilding</i></b><br><br>Water voles are small, brownish, bewhiskered and charming. Made famous by ''Ratty'' in <i>The Wind in the Willows</i>, 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.<br><br>Tom Moorhouse spent eleven years beside rivers, fens, canals, lakes and streams, researching British wildlife. Quite a lot of it tried to bite him. He studied four main species - two native and endangered, two invasive and endangering - beginning with water voles. He wanted to solve their conservation problems. He wanted to put things right.<br><br>This book is about whether it worked
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