The Eden Mission continued
The Eden Mission is an environmental adventure-thriller, based on a year-long international conservation crusade. It includes accurate wildlife and environmental details and typical examples of the heedless exploitation of nature against which The Eden Mission is directed. The book is targeted at readers from secondary school age and up.
The book's foreword is by naturalist David Bellamy - a Bellamy-type character takes a leading role in the novel. It features Professor Bellamy on the cover too. From 1995, for every copy sold, 20p was donated to the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth, Wales (http://www.cat.org.uk) to help develop a new high-tech, low-energy-use educational centre.
Its theme is as topical as ever. Devastating oil spills, ruthless poachers and wildlife smugglers, ruined habitats, record extinction rates of plants and animals, droughts, floods, plagues of pests..... the challenges keep mounting. As Bellamy states in the foreword : "The Eden Mission brings the real live world of conservation and the fight to save the planet to a whole new audience."
More reviews :
The book was selected for the Young Book Trust Library recommended reading list on the environment (teenage fiction) as well as accepted for submission for a number of literary prizes. It has also been produced in a braille edition by the National Library for the Blind (NLB) and as a CD by Listening Books (The National Listening Library).
The book's foreword is by naturalist David Bellamy - a Bellamy-type character takes a leading role in the novel. It features Professor Bellamy on the cover too. From 1995, for every copy sold, 20p was donated to the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth, Wales (http://www.cat.org.uk) to help develop a new high-tech, low-energy-use educational centre.
Its theme is as topical as ever. Devastating oil spills, ruthless poachers and wildlife smugglers, ruined habitats, record extinction rates of plants and animals, droughts, floods, plagues of pests..... the challenges keep mounting. As Bellamy states in the foreword : "The Eden Mission brings the real live world of conservation and the fight to save the planet to a whole new audience."
More reviews :
- "A right riveting read." (Friends of the Earth,Birmingham)
- "A great achievement – and a strong message for conservation." (Professor Sir Ghillean Prance, former Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
- "Dramatic, informative, memorable." (The Junior Bookshelf)
The book was selected for the Young Book Trust Library recommended reading list on the environment (teenage fiction) as well as accepted for submission for a number of literary prizes. It has also been produced in a braille edition by the National Library for the Blind (NLB) and as a CD by Listening Books (The National Listening Library).
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The Story
Six teenagers join research ship "Sea Shepherd" for a year-long conservation crusade - The Eden Mission - that takes them through the Florida Everglades, California and the Amazon, eventually to a chilling climax in Antarctica. En route are many dangers - from hurricane "Hannah" and jungle terrors to kidnapping and murder. Lurking in the background is a sinister global business consortium - the Organization - exploiters of the world's dwindling resources, and brutally determined to thwart The Eden Mission. Please click here if you wish to find out more about the author, Anthony Wall. Unique Features of The Eden Mission. Although written entirely as a novel, the book includes striking facts about wildlife, the environment and problems associated with the over-exploitation of resources. It therefore has a poignant reality to it - especially beneficial to the education market since it provides a link between a variety of departments such as English, Science and Technology. |
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