The Last Wilderness

Neil Ansell

£10.99

Neil Ansell’s The Last Wilderness is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has spent his lifetime taking solitary ventures into the wild.

Paperback

Non-Fiction > Travel Writing

ISBN: 9781472247124

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For any readers of the author’s previous book, Deep Country, Robert Macfarlane’s The Old Ways or William Atkins The Moor.

The experience of being in nature alone is here set within the context of a series of walks that Neil Ansell takes into the most remote parts of Britain, the rough bounds in the Scottish Highlands.

He illustrates the impact of being alone as part of nature, rather than outside it.

As a counterpoint, Neil Ansell also writes of the changes in the landscape, and how his hearing loss affects his relationship with nature as the calls of the birds he knows so well become silent to him.

Shortlisted for the 2018 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize.

Shortlisted for the 2018 Highland Book Prize.

Ansell has the rare skill of combining vividly the intimacy of detail and the astonishing grandeur of this North West coastline of Scotland. Through his keen eyes we look again at the familiar with a sense of wondrous revelation’ – Madeleine Bunting

Beautiful…a testimony to reticent courage’ – Daily Mail


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Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 5 cm