Wild Britain: A Traveller's Guide

The New Forest is hardly the sort of wild or remote place where you would expect to get lost, especially if you are an experienced traveler, but Douglas Botting managed it. "There were no sounds of civilization to give us a bearing on the outside world, no distinguishable landmarks, just trees, and more trees, and clearings, thickets, groves, gullies leading nowhere in particular, and trees again." As he explains in this warm and lyrical book, it does not do to underestimate wild Britain. H...