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Are there any wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness?
In his beloved and bewitching classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wilderness that remains. From the cliffs of Cape Wrath to the holloways of Dorset, the storm beaches of Norfolk to the peaks of the Highlands, The Wild Places is a beautiful and impassioned exploration of wild places and their fragile, vital importance.
‘A love song to these islands, an elegant and heartfelt testimony to the value of landscape that we remain in acute danger of destroying forever… Macfarlane, with his luminous prose and his passionate sense of the importance of wildness for humanity, is Deakin’s natural inheritor’ Olivia Laing, Observer
‘Beautiful and inspiring…A paean to an endangered Britain’ Independent
‘A descriptive writer of breathtaking power. In a few words, [Macfarlane] conjures up not only the shapes and dynamics of the land, but the experience of being absorbed by it… Prose as precise as this is not just evocative. It is a manifesto in itself’ Sunday Times
