The Wild Places
- ISBN-10
- 1847081592
- ISBN-13
- 9781847081599
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-07-02
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Author
- Robert Macfarlane
Description
Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
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