The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane

The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane

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? 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.

Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Ancient Ways, and Landmarks are four prize-winning works about landscape and the human heart by Robert Macfarlane. Harper's, Granta, The New Yorker, the Observer (London), the Times Literary Supplement (London), and the London Review of Books have all published his work. He is a fellow of Cambridge's Emmanuel College.

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ISBN 13	9780143113935
ISBN 10	0143113933
Title	The Wild Places
Author	Robert Macfarlane
Series	Landscapes
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2008-06-24
Number of pages	352
Prizes	Winner of Banff Mountain Book Festival Award., Winner of New York Times Notable Book.
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.