Britain and Ireland's Best Wild Places: 500 Ways to Discover the Wild - Hardcover

Somerville, Christopher

3.72

39 ratings by Goodreads

9780713999679: Britain and Ireland's Best Wild Places: 500 Ways to Discover the Wild

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713999675 ISBN 13: 9780713999679

Publisher: Allen Lane, 2008

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Christopher Somerville takes us a journey of discovery through Britain and Ireland, spanning their length and breadth as he seeks out 500 of his favourite Wild Places in fields and green lanes, in forests and mountains and on lonely coasts, in all of nature's moods and every kind of weather.

Britain and Ireland's Best Wild Places is the key to discovering Scottish mountainsides covered in rare Ice Age flowers, Cornish standing stones and holy wells, Midlands wildflower meadows, storm-battered Welsh headlands and seabird islands, hill ranges and boglands in Ireland where only hares and skylarks go. But this adventurous book roams far beyond conventional landscapes. Among its wild treasures are medieval Green Men spewing mouthfuls of leaves, the ruins of haunted chapels deep in forgotten woods, old mines and quarries being recaptured by nature, villages where pagan rituals are still enthusiastically observed, rusting sea-forts tottering on sandbanks. Each Wild Place is enhanced with mapping and travel instructions, suggestions about walks and other useful information.

Britain and Ireland are crammed full of wild places, often astonishingly close to home. Here is one man's poetical yet practical account of the state of the Wild in Britain and Ireland, how it is being both threatened and nurtured, and how - whether you are heading out for a Sunday stroll or planning your next holiday - you can go out and discover it in all its extraordinary vigour and variety.

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Review:

'Packed with unknown, exotic sounding locations, this truly is a book to rouse the explorative spirit within' -- Walk

'The book is a success of organisation...an exemplary piece of book craft... The best guidebooks...inspire adventure, improvisation and the learning that comes from discovery. Somerville's book is in that valuable tradition.' -- Robert Macfarlane, Sunday Times Book Review

At once informative and poetic ... those [places] I know of are gems. ... I've got a lot of books on wildlife and this is already among the select.
-- Colin Tudge, Financial Times

Follow in Somerville's footsteps this autumn - we promise it'll be the perfect antidote to a week in the office. -- National Trust Magazine

The author of 'Coast' brings us another superb title exploring the lesser-known wild places of the British Isles ... take time to look at this beautifully-produced book and start planning a wilderness holiday closer to home. -- Good Book Guide

`Britain and Ireland's best Wild Places is a beautifully presented volume...deftly and lyrically described in a way that is sure to lure the romantic wanderer'
-- Western Daily Press (West Country Life)

`Christopher Somerville's magnificent gazetteer to Britain and Ireland's wild places could not be more timely' -- Sunday Telegraph

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'Packed with unknown, exotic sounding locations, this truly is a book to rouse the explorative spirit within'

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