'Daltun brings us on a journey into the history and ecology of Ireland's woodlands and provides an inspiring vision of their social, ecological and cultural potential if allowed to thrive again'
- Manchan Magan, writer and broadcaster
'This is an inspirational book. Eoghan Daltun's mission to restore an Irish rainforest has already inspired thousands via his posts on social media, and this account is sure to galvanise many more. Eoghan's evocative descriptions of the temperate rainforest he discovered growing on the Beara Peninsula, his knowledge of history and place, and his wisdom and insights into how to repair this damaged ecosystem, mean this book should be urgently read by politicians and the public alike. The time has come to restore temperate rainforests across Ireland and Britain'
- Guy Shrubsole, environmental campaigner and author of The Lost Rainforests of Britain (William Collins, 2022) and Who Owns England (2019)
'Eoghan Daltun's wildly inspirational memoir of adopting a slice of Ireland's coast and snatching it from ecological degradation is an invaluable and timely revelation. By simple, if backbreaking, means-fencing out herbivores, extirpating invasives, and encouraging natural reseeding-he has allowed the land to live its best life, recovering its true character as temperate rainforest. It's a breath-taking accomplishment on an island where only one percent of original woodland survives and an urgent prescription for Ireland's remaining forest fragments. The moving epiphanies of Daltun's encounters with the "simply aching beauty" of this intoxicating place leave you rejuvenated, "as if you've won a much bigger jackpot than any of those they sell tickets for." The most exhilarating account of rewilding yet written'
- Caroline Fraser, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution
'In this part-memoir, part environmental treatise, we watch a temperate rainforest flourish on the Irish coast and are asked to examine larger questions about climate breakdown'
- Irish Independent
'Daltun [...] writes with passion and purpose of the way we should live now'
- RTE Guide