The Wild Places

The Wild Places

Einband:
Kartonierter Einband
EAN:
9780143113935
Untertitel:
Penguin Original
Genre:
Natur, Garten & Tiere
Autor:
Robert Macfarlane
Herausgeber:
Penguin Random House Sea
Anzahl Seiten:
352
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.07.2008
ISBN:
978-0-14-311393-5

Zusatztext 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. The New York Times Book Review Macfarlane delivers crisp! engaging scenes . . . by the end of his peregrinations he had won me over completely. Anthony Doerr! The Boston Globe 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. Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Robert Macfarlane is the author of prizewinning books about landscape and the human heart: Mountains of the Mind , The Wild Places , The Old Ways, Landmarks, and Underland . He has contributed to Harper's , Granta , The New Yorker , the Observer (London), the Times Literary Supplement (London), and the London Review of Books . He is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Klappentext From the author of The Old Ways and Underland , 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 Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and a finalist for the Orion Book Award Are 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. Zusammenfassung From the author of The Old Ways and Underland ! 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 Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and a finalist for the Orion Book Award Are 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. ...

ldquo;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.” – The New York Times Book Review
 
“Macfarlane delivers crisp, engaging scenes . . . by the end of his peregrinations he had won me over completely.” – Anthony Doerr, The Boston Globe
 
“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.” – Publishers Weekly

Autorentext
Robert Macfarlane is the author of  prizewinning books about landscape and the human heart: Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Landmarks, and Underland . He has contributed to Harper’s, Granta, The New Yorker, the Observer (London), the Times Literary Supplement (London), and the London Review of Books. He is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Klappentext
From the author of The Old Ways and Underland, 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

Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and a finalist for the Orion Book Award

Are 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.


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