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Landscapes Ser.: The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane (2008, UK-B Format Paperback)

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Wild Places, Paperback by McFarlane, Robert, ISBN 0143113933, ISBN-13 9780143113935, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Explores the changing ideas of the wild in Great Britain and Ireland, from the cliffs of Cape Wrath and the storm-beaches of Norfolk to the saltmarshes and estuaries of Essex and the moors of Rannoch and the Pennines.

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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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143113933
ISBN-13
9780143113935
eBay Product ID (ePID)
64161356

Product Key Features

Book Title
Wild Places
Author
Robert Macfarlane
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Ecosystems & Habitats / Wilderness, Europe / Ireland, Europe / Great Britain, Essays
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Nature, Travel
Number of Pages
352 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7.5in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Series Volume Number
2
Lc Classification Number
Da632.M33 2008
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Grade to
Up
Reviews
The Wild Placesboldly celebrates places that aren’t supposed to exist, and does so in prose that is at times very nearly as vivid and beautiful as the thing itself.” —Rebecca Solnit Prose as precise as this is not just evocative. It is a manifesto in itself. Macfarlane’s language urges us to gaze more closely at the wonders around us, to take notice, to remind ourselves how thrillingly alive a spell in the wild can make us seem.” —The Sunday Times(UK), "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 Macfarlane'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 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." - Publishers Weekly, 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 transcend the physical region he explores…the natural world swells with meaning through Macfarlane’s devoted observations, which can be both minutely detailed and vast in scope…like the wild it parses, [this book] quietly returns us to ourselves.” – The New York Times Book Review Inspiring…Macfarlane brings these landscapes to pulsing life…His precision in apprehending the world is a salutary lesson in and of itself…His descriptions have created a new map of Britain and Ireland in my mind. And like pebbles in a pond, those descriptions are now altering the way I look at the world immediately around me.. this is the final gift of Macfarlane’s wild places: they illuminate the wild wonder of our everyday world.” – National Geographic Traveler The Wild Placesboldly celebrates places that aren’t supposed to exist, and does so in prose that is at times very nearly as vivid and beautiful as the thing itself.” —Rebecca Solnit Prose as precise as this is not just evocative. It is a manifesto in itself. Macfarlane’s language urges us to gaze more closely at the wonders around us, to take notice, to remind ourselves how thrillingly alive a spell in the wild can make us seem.” —The Sunday Times(UK), â€œA formidable consideration by a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence â€“ poetry, really â€“ with the breathless ease of a master angler, a writer whose ideas and reach transcend the physical region he explores&the natural world swells with meaning through Macfarlaneâ€™s devoted observations, which can be both minutely detailed and vast in scope&like the wild it parses, [this book] quietly returns us to ourselves.â€� â€“ The New York Times Book Review â€œInspiring&Macfarlane brings these landscapes to pulsing life&His precision in apprehending the world is a salutary lesson in and of itself&His descriptions have created a new map of Britain and Ireland in my mind. And like pebbles in a pond, those descriptions are now altering the way I look at the world immediately around me.. this is the final gift of Macfarlaneâ€™s wild places: they illuminate the wild wonder of our everyday world.â€� â€“ National Geographic Traveler â€œ The Wild Places boldly celebrates places that arenâ€™t supposed to exist, and does so in prose that is at times very nearly as vivid and beautiful as the thing itself.â€� â€”Rebecca Solnit â€œ Prose as precise as this is not just evocative. It is a manifesto in itself. Macfarlaneâ€™s language urges us to gaze more closely at the wonders around us, to take notice, to remind ourselves how thrillingly alive a spell in the wild can make us seem.â€� â€” The Sunday Times (UK), "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 transcend the physical region he explores...the natural world swells with meaning through Macfarlane's devoted observations, which can be both minutely detailed and vast in scope...like the wild it parses, [this book] quietly returns us to ourselves." - The New York Times Book Review "Inspiring...Macfarlane brings these landscapes to pulsing life...His precision in apprehending the world is a salutary lesson in and of itself...His descriptions have created a new map of Britain and Ireland in my mind. And like pebbles in a pond, those descriptions are now altering the way I look at the world immediately around me.. this is the final gift of Macfarlane's wild places: they illuminate the wild wonder of our everyday world." - National Geographic Traveler " The Wild Places boldly celebrates places that aren't supposed to exist, and does so in prose that is at times very nearly as vivid and beautiful as the thing itself." --Rebecca Solnit " Prose as precise as this is not just evocative. It is a manifesto in itself. Macfarlane's language urges us to gaze more closely at the wonders around us, to take notice, to remind ourselves how thrillingly alive a spell in the wild can make us seem." -- The Sunday Times (UK)
Copyright Date
2008
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2008-017162
Dewey Decimal
914.10486
Series
Landscapes Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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Wild Exploration from home!
Recommended by a friend from the UK If you were afraid all areas of exploring the wild had been exhausted find the thrill of natures wild places from a true lover.....well written. Places I never will see, I have seen through the eyes of this explorer....it was worth imagining myself there...the birds, the rocks, the tides, the heat, the cold....the tree's ....so beautiful

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