GROUNDBREAKERS: THE RETURN OF BRITAIN'S WILD BOAR. By Chantal Lyons.

2024 1st edition. 8vo (141 x 223mm). Pp288. Not illustrated. Pictorial boards, issued without a dust-wrapper.

Scattered populations of wild boar are now established in Britain, after a series of illegal releases.The author "immerses herself in the boar's world in the Forest of Dean, and sets out for other places that are inhabited by this ...animal. From Toulouse and Barcelona where they are growing in number and boldness, to the woods of Kent and Sussex where they are fading away again, to Inverness-shire... join Chantal as she reveals what it might be take for use to coexist with wild boar." Chapters include: Part Ones, Past and Present: An end and a beginning; A wild boar chase; Guys, dolls and humbugs; Monstrous appetites; Re-rooting; this is our land; The boar people (two chapters); Mad about the boar; The Torc of Galloway. Part Two, Futures: A bambouche of boar; Fences of the mind; Losing them again; The risks of being alive; Epilogue. An interesting journalistic road trip in the style of a Sunday magazine article. A marketing exercise rather than a sober analysis.