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Publisher: Canongate

Author: Dan Richards

ISBN: 9781786891570

Year: 2020

Format: Paperback

Nature, Memoir

Outpost by
Dan Richards

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$ 300.00 mxn

Outpost by

Dan Richards

Reviews

"Richards’ prose is by turns beautiful, funny, evocative and learned, the pages illuminated by lovely, warming footnotes… [Richards’ voice is] vivid, self-deprecating, literary and very, very funny."

The Observer

Summary

There are still wild places out there on our crowded planet.

Through a series of personal journeys, Dan Richards explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans, and deserts. Following a route from the Cairngorms of Scotland to the fire-watch lookouts of Washington State; from Iceland’s “Houses of Joy” to the Utah desert; frozen ghost towns in Svalbard to shrines in Japan; Roald Dahl’s writing hut to a lighthouse in the North Atlantic, Richards explores landscapes which have inspired writers, artists, and musicians, and asks: why are we drawn to wilderness? What can we do to protect them? And what does the future hold for outposts on the edge?

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