The Wild Places
New York : Penguin Books, 2008.
Format: Book
Description: 340 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm
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.
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.
Contents:
Beechwood -- Island -- Valley -- Moor -- Forest -- River-mouth -- Cape -- Summit -- Grave -- Ridge -- Holloway -- Storm-beach -- Saltmarsh -- Tor -- Beechwood.
Subjects:
Macfarlane, Robert, 1976- -- Travel -- Great Britain.
Macfarlane, Robert, 1976- -- Travel -- Ireland.
Wilderness areas -- Great Britain.
Wilderness areas -- Ireland.
Great Britain -- Description and travel.
Ireland -- Description and travel.
Macfarlane, Robert, 1976- -- Travel -- Great Britain.
Macfarlane, Robert, 1976- -- Travel -- Ireland.
Wilderness areas -- Great Britain.
Wilderness areas -- Ireland.
Great Britain -- Description and travel.
Ireland -- Description and travel.
ISBN:
9780143113935
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
TRAVEL Writing Mac | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
LITERATURE Essays Mac | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
"First published in Great Britain by Granta Books 2007"--Title page verso.
"A Penguin original"--P. [4] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-327) and index.
"A Penguin original"--P. [4] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-327) and index.