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The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane

The Wild Places

By Robert Macfarlane

By Robert Macfarlane

By Robert Macfarlane

By Robert Macfarlane

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Jun 24, 2008 | ISBN 9780143113935

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Jun 24, 2008 | ISBN 9781440638657

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    About The Wild Places

    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.

    About The Wild Places

    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.

    About Robert Macfarlane

    Robert Macfarlane is the bestselling author of an award-winning trilogy of books about landscape and the human heart: Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, and The Old Ways. He is also the author of Landmarks and Holloway. His work has been translated into a dozen languages and… More about Robert Macfarlane

    About Robert Macfarlane

    Robert Macfarlane is the bestselling author of an award-winning trilogy of books about landscape and the human heart: Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, and The Old Ways. He is also the author of Landmarks and Holloway. His work has been translated into a dozen languages and… More about Robert Macfarlane

    Product Details

    Category: Science | Travel: Europe

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jun 24, 2008 | 352 Pages | 5-1/2 x 7-1/2 | ISBN 9780143113935

    Category: Science | Travel: Europe

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jun 24, 2008 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9781440638657

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    Praise

    “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.” – The New York Times Book Review
     
    “Macfarlane delivers crisp, engaging scenes . . . by the end of his peregrinations he had won me over completely.” – Anthony Doerr, The Boston Globe
     
    “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.” – Publishers Weekly

    Awards

    Banff Mountain Book Festival Award WINNER

    New York Times Notable Book WINNER

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