The Wild Places (Landscape and the Human Heart Trilogy #2) [B2141]

2008 PB in nice clean condition. 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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Now I want to wander in wild places, sleep under the stars, and climb up in trees! Beautiful writing, gorgeous descriptions, and many historical stories to draw connections between the land and real people."; "At first I was irritated with this book, because the plot is half missing, the definition of "wildness" is half-assed and inconsistent, and he spends so much time rambling about poets. But the important thing is it made me want to go outside and explore. I want to climb trees and find the little spots of wildness. Also I cried. So, clearly it got to me."; "A masterpiece of nature writing and a master class on finding beauty in the not so wild patches of nature we all are passing by every day."