{"product_id":"the-wild-places-isbn-9780143113935","title":"The Wild Places","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eIs A River Alive \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eUnderland\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and a finalist for the Orion Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAre 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.“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.” \u003cb\u003e– \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Macfarlane delivers crisp, engaging scenes . . . by the end of his peregrinations he had won me over completely.” \u003cb\u003e– Anthony Doerr, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “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.” \u003cb\u003e– \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"The Old Ways confirms Macfarlane's reputation as one of the most eloquent and observant of contemporary writers about nature'\" -- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScotland on Sunday (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Sublime... It sets the imagination tingling, laying an irresistible trail for readers to follow'\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times (London)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Read this and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMetro (London)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"He has a rare physical intelligence and affords total immersion in place, elements and the passage of time: wonderful\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eAntony Gormley, artist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Macfarlane \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of  prizewinning books about landscape and the human heart: \u003ci\u003eMountains of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Places\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Old Ways,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLandmarks, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Underland .\u003c\/i\u003e He has contributed to \u003ci\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eObserver \u003c\/i\u003e(London), the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003e(London), and the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300228911333,"sku":"NP9780143113935","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143113935.jpg?v=1767742218","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-wild-places-isbn-9780143113935","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}