There was a time when our lives were woven into the rhythms of the land. We recognised the plants around us like familiar neighbours, each with its own purpose and story. These days, that closeness has faded. We've drifted from the natural world and forgotten how much the plants beneath our feet once meant to us.

Vanishing Landscapes traces the slow retreat of plants from our everyday lives. One by one, they slipped away, the apples we picked, the saffron once found in kitchen cupboards, the woad that coloured our clothes, the vines that gave us wine. Even the timber for our homes and the wheat that filled our fields began to disappear from view. In their place came something entirely different: factories, banks, borders, and a system of trade and ownership that reshaped the world and pushed nature to the edges of our lives.

This magnificent book brings to life a world we never knew but still long for, and reminds us that it's not too late to find a way back.