The Savage Landscape - Cal Flyn

*WINNER OF THE 2026 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING*LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2026A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2026 SO FARH 'The best non-fiction writer of her generation' THE TIMES'When I read Flyn’s writing I would often exhale with a sense of wonder' GUARDIAN'Fascinating and masterfully written' ALICE WINNA lyrical exploration of the world’s most forbiddingly remote places, the supposedly uninhabited wildernesses of the world – and the humans who have always been there, by award-winning and critically acclaimed writer Cal Flyn.The Savage Landscape takes us into the wild – deep into dark forests, to the top of mountains and into the heart of deserts. It addresses our deep yearnings to be awed and inspired by landscapes that remain beyond our reach and examines what nature gets up to in the absence of humans. It is a book full of ideas, beauty and adventure, and one that asks provocative questions about the nature of wilderness and how wild places might be appreciated or preserved.As with her earlier book Islands of Abandonment, Flyn focuses each chapter on eleven locations chosen for their physical beauty, their perceived isolation and the moral or emotional complexity of the human stories that can be found there. In her search for wilderness, we meet ascetics in search of theophany in the desert; lonely shepherds seeing off wolves under the stars; missionaries preaching from shacks deep in the jungle; wise lamas meditating under lofty
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