The Wild Places
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 AwardAre 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 mea…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4406-3865-7
- EAN: 9781440638657
- Produktnummer: 17988360
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 8'002 KB
- Abbildungen: B/W PHOTOS THROUGHOUT
- Reihenbandnummer: 2
Über den Autor
Robert Macfarlane is the author of a prizewinning quartet of books about landscape and the human heart: Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, and Landmarks. He has contributed to Harper's, Granta, The New Yorker, the Observer (London), the Times Literary Supplement (London), and the London Review of Books. He is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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