The Wild Places - Hardcover

Robert Macfarlane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1862079412 ISBN 13: 9781862079410

Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS, 2007

Synopsis

Rare book

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Macfarlane is the bestselling author of an award-winning trilogy of books about landscape and the human heart: Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, and The Old Ways. He is also the author of Landmarks and Holloway. His work has been translated into a dozen languages and is published in more than 20 countries, and his books have been widely adapted for TV, film, and radio by the BBC, among others. Macfarlane has contributed to Harper’s Magazine, Granta, The Observer (London), the Times Literary Supplement (London), and the London Review of Books. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2012, and is currently a Fellow in English of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Review:

a" The Wild Places" boldly celebrates places that arenat supposed to exist, and does so in prose that is at times very nearly as vivid and beautiful as the thing itself.a
aRebecca Solnit
a Prose as precise as this is not just evocative. It is a manifesto in itself. Macfarlaneas 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.a
a"The Sunday Times" (UK)

aA formidable consideration by a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence a poetry, really a with the breathless ease of a master angler, a writer whose ideas and reach transcend the physical region he exploresa]the natural world swells with meaning through Macfarlaneas devoted observations, which can be both minutely detailed and vast in scopea]like the wild it parses, [this book] quietly returns us to ourselves.a
a "The New York Times Book Review"
aInspiringa]Macfarlane brings these landscapes to pulsing lifea]His precision in apprehending the world is a salutary lesson in and of itselfa]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 Macfarlaneas wild places: they illuminate the wild wonder of our everyday world.a
a "National Geographic Traveler"
a" The Wild Places" boldly celebrates places that arenat supposed to exist, and does so in prose that is at times very nearly as vivid and beautiful as the thing itself.a
aRebecca Solnit
a Prose as precise as this is not just evocative. It is a manifesto in itself. Macfarlaneas 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.a
a"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 exis

?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

About this edition

• Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1862079412
• ISBN 13: 9781862079410
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352