“Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wilderness?”  This is the question Macfarlane set out to answer in his wonderfully lyrical book ‘Wild Places’, out in paper back since last year. Having won the Guardian first book award in 2003 for Mountains of the Mind much was expected of this book and it didn’t disappoint. Travelling the length and breadth of Britain and Ireland Macfarlane writes with a poise and elegance that sets him at the forefront of the current crop of British nature writers. Mixing history, memory and landscape Macfarlane proves he is a highly original voice and a writer of the highest calibre.

Review by Julian Mash

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ISBN 978-1-84-708018-9  

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