The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness

A lyrical exploration of the world's wildest, most forbiddingly remote places-and the humans who have always been there, by
“the best non-fiction writer of her generation,” according to The Times

From the blacksand beaches of Iceland, to river crossings deep in the Amazon jungle, to the barren beauty of Antarctica, wildernesses make up some of the world's more alluring natural landscapes. But what is a wilderness, really? It is a powerful, ancient concept, lying at the intersection of landsc...