The Wild Places

Guided by monks, questers, scientists, philosophers, poets and artists, both living and dead, Macfarlane explores our changing ideas of the wild. Are there any wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wilderness? Robert Macfarlane embarks on a wonder voyage in search of the wilderness that remains. A book about friendship and loss as well as history, memory and landscape, The Wild Places - Winner of the 2007 Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature - is further proof that Macfarlane is one of the finest writers in Britain today...