The Wild Places
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · June 24, 2008
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- Who it’s for
- A searching blend of landscape, history, and memory makes wildness feel close and consequential.
- Themes
- Wildness and nature, Britain and Ireland's landscapes, History, memory, and landscape
- Pacing
- Reflective
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From The New York Times bestselling author of Is A River Alive 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?
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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.
Where Wildness Remains
A searching blend of landscape, history, and memory makes wildness feel close and consequential.
Come here for
- Literary journeys through Britain and Ireland’s remarkable landscapes
- A thoughtful reckoning with what wildness means—and why it matters
Expect
- Climbing, walking, and swimming through landscapes by day
- History, memory, and landscape braided into an evocative meditation
Where it sits
| Wilderness & Wild Places | 53% |
|---|---|
| Nature Writing | 25% |
| Travel Writing | 19% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Nature Writing
- Great Britain Travel
- Ireland Travel
- Authors
- Robert Macfarlane
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- June 24, 2008
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Wildness and nature · Britain and Ireland's landscapes · History, memory, and landscape
- Reading lane
- Nature Writing