The Wild Places - (Landscapes) by Robert MacFarlane (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? That is the question that Macfarlane poses to himself as he embarks on a series of breathtaking journeys through some of the archipelago's most remarkable landscapes. Illustrated.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><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> <p/> <b>Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and a finalist for the Orion Book Award</b> <p/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A formidable consideration by a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence - poetry really - with the breathless ease of a master angler, a writer whose ideas and reach far transcend the physical region he explores . . . the natural world swells with meaning through Macfarlane's devoted observations." <b>- <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b> <p/> "Macfarlane delivers crisp, engaging scenes . . . by the end of his peregrinations he had won me over completely." <b>- Anthony Doerr, <i>The Boston Globe</i></b> <p/> "In this eloquent travelogue, Macfarlane explores the last undomesticated landscapes in Britain and Ireland in a narration that blends history, memoir, and meditation . . . His striking prose not only evokes each locale's physicality in sensuous, deliberate detail, it glows with a reverence for nature in general and takes the reader on both a geographical and a philosophical journey." <b>- <i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Robert Macfarlane </b>is the author of a prizewinning quartet of books about landscape and the human heart: <i>Mountains of the Mind</i>, <i>The Wild Places</i>, <i>The Old Ways, </i> and<i> Landmarks.</i> He has contributed to <i>Harper's</i>, <i>Granta</i>, <i>The New Yorker</i>, the <i>Observer </i>(London), the <i>Times Literary Supplement </i>(London), and the <i>London Review of Books</i>. He is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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