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  • The Last Wilderness

  • A Journey into Silence
  • By: Neil Ansell
  • Narrated by: Peter Noble
  • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Neil Ansell's The Last Wilderness is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has spent his lifetime taking solitary ventures into the wild. For fans of the author's previous book, Deep Country, Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways or William Atkins' The Moor.

The experience of being in nature alone is here set within the context of a series of walks that Neil Ansell takes into the most remote parts of Britain, the rough bounds in the Scottish Highlands. He illustrates the impact of being alone as part of nature rather than outside it.

As a counterpoint, Neil Ansell also writes of the changes in the landscape and how his hearing loss affects his relationship with nature as the calls of the birds he knows so well become silent to him.

©2018 Neil Ansell (P)2018 Headline Publishing Group Ltd.
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"A gem of a book, an extraordinary tale. Ansell's rich prose will transport you to a real life Narnian world that C.S. Lewis would have envied. Find your deepest, most comfortable armchair and get away from it all." ( Countryfile)

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Beautiful lyrical writing about Nature

let yourself be transported to the Scottish Highlands in vivid detail. the authors poetry of language and prose is just stunning a real masterpiece

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