# Elegy For a River

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-p-moorhouse/elegy-for-a-river/9781473592797

![Elegy For a River](https://quivercdn.com/covers/transworld-digital/tom-p-moorhouse/elegy-for-a-river_978-14-7359-279-7-c040a7a0.webp?v=2026-10-01%2002%3A57%3A20)

- Book: [Elegy For a River](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-p-moorhouse/elegy-for-a-river) ([Elegy For a River.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-p-moorhouse/elegy-for-a-river.md))
- Authors: [Tom P. Moorhouse](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-p-moorhouse)
- Publisher: transworld_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 5 h 11 min
- Narrated by: Tom P. Moorhouse
- ISBN: 978-14-7359-279-7
- Published: 2021-03-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 5 h 11 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. Water 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 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. This book is about whether it worked, and what he learnt - and about what those lessons mean, not just for water voles but for all the world's wildlife. It is a book for anyone who has watched ripples spread on lazy waters, and wondered what moves beneath. Or who has waited in quiet hope for a rustle in the reeds, the munch of a stem, or the patter of unseen paws. © Tom Moorhouse 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021