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Starred Review. In this eloquent travelogue, Macfarlane (Mountains of the Mind) explores the last
undomesticated landscapes in Britain and Ireland in a narration that blends history, memoir and
meditation. Macfarlane journeys to salt marshes, mountaintops, forests, beaches, constantly
expanding and refining his understanding of wildness. Walking a Lake District ridge at night, he
observes that with the stars falling plainly far above, it seemed to me that our estrangement from
the dark was a great and serious loss. Crossing a moor, he finds its vastness and resistance to
straight lines of progress analogous to the inability of mere words to convey a landscape's variety
and immensity. Nonetheless, Macfarlane's language is as surprising and precise as his
environments, with such evocative phrases as heat jellying the air, ice lidded the puddles and
descriptions of birds that gild a tree and the sky as a steady tall blue. His striking prose not only
evokes each locale's physicality in sensuous, deliberate detail, it glows with a reverence for nature
in general and takes the reader on both a geographical and a philosophical journey, as mindexpanding
as any of his wild places. (June) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of
Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Read more “A formidable consideration by a naturalist
who can unfurl a sentence – poetry really – with the breathless ease of a master angler, a
writer whose ideas and reach far transcend the physical region he explores . . . the natural world
swells with meaning through Macfarlaneâ€s devoted observations.― – The New York Times
Book Review  “Macfarlane delivers crisp, engaging scenes . . . by the end of his
peregrinations he had won me over completely.― – Anthony Doerr, The Boston Globe
 “In this eloquent travelogue, Macfarlane explores the last undomesticated landscapes in
Britain and Ireland in a narration that blends history, memoir, and meditation . . . His striking prose
not only evokes each localeâ€s physicality in sensuous, deliberate detail, it glows with a
reverence for nature in general and takes the reader on both a geographical and a philosophical
journey.― – Publishers Weekly Read more See all Editorial Reviews