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The Wild Places

By Robert Macfarlane
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From the author of The Old Ways and Underland, 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

Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and a finalist for the Orion Book Award

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.

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Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes“Never in my life have I wanted to go camping. Never in my life have I thought, that lying in a tent, in the cold, would be something that I could imagine myself doing. However, after reading this story … I’ve actually thought maybe it’s not so bad. Which I think is quite telling The descriptions of nature and the effects it has on him are beautiful, captivating and retrospectively also a bit haunting.”

About Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane is the author of  prizewinning books about landscape and the human heart: Mountains of the MindThe Wild PlacesThe Old Ways, Landmarks, and Underland . He has contributed to Harper’sGrantaThe New Yorker, the Observer (London), the Times Literary Supplement (London), and the London Review of Books. He is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

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