Feb 21, 2017 10:18 AM
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I found it a fascinating book, both on a level of personal discovery, realizing the true nature of what is a wild place, and in opening the reader's minds to what exists within our own island. It took me longer than expected to read this, because I spent as much time in Google Earth as in the book. And that is my suggestion: a companion volume or new edition with photos and maps, with distances. I was trolling youtube, also and found some marvelous videos of where Macfarlane visited.
Simply lovely. A beautiful, lyrical meditation on wildness and whether or not wild places still exist in the U. K. The themes that flow through MacFarlane's writing - friendship, life, death the past, present and future of our species and our relationship with our surroundings.
