Wildness and Wet
For as long as there has been civilization its antithesis, the wilderness, has exercised a fascination over writers, inspiring in them fear, awe and puzzlement. Here is our booksellers’ choice of books, old and new, that celebrate the wild, from the poets of ancient China to the present day. Gerard Manley Hopkins's great poem ‘Inversnaid’ is one of the cornerstones of wilderness writing, and provides the title of our selection: long live the weeds and the wilderness yet!
£8.99
How to Be Wild
Simon Barnes recounts a year’s worth of encounters with the wild in a series of short chapters. A keen observer, Barnes can find wilderness almost ... See details
£9.99
Wild: An Elemental Journey
Seven years in the writing, Wild took Jay Griffiths to the Arctic wilderness, the highlands of Papua New Guinea and the Australian outback. ... See details
£9.99
The Wild Places
In Wild Places Robert Macfarlane, whose history of mountaineering Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award in 2... See details
£12.99
Letters from Iceland
During the summer of 1936, W. H. Auden invited Louis MacNeice to join him on a trip to Iceland to write a book, funded by a publisher’s advance. Wh... See details
£18.99
Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank
Can we put a value on nature? In their example-packed survey of how life is self-sustaining, Beattie and Ehrlich demonstrate that for nutrient cycl... See details
£18.95
The Idea of Wilderness
Max Oelschlager’s monumental history of the evolution of wilderness in the human mind was first published in 1991 and has become a key text in the ... See details
£18.00
Forests
Throughout history the forest has functioned in myth, literature and culture as a surrogate for the wild, a repository of both danger and freedom. ... See details
£18.95
Reading the Mountains of Home
The mountains of Vermont are wilderness of a particular kind, once extensively logged and cultivated but now largely abandoned and returning to nat... See details