The Wild Places (Landscapes)

The Wild Places (Landscapes)

<b>From the author of <i>The Old Ways </i>and <i>Underland</i>, an "eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the earth's surface." --Bill McKibben</b> <br><br> <b>Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and a finalist for the Orion Book Award</b><br><br>Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? That is the question that Robert Macfarlane poses to himself as he embarks on a series of breathtaking journeys through some of the archipelago's most remarkable landscapes. He climbs, walks, and swims by day and spends his nights sleeping on cliff-tops and in ancient meadows and wildwoods. With elegance and passion he entwines history, memory, and landscape in a bewitching evocation of wildness and its vital importance.