The Wild Places Crafts evoking the unexpected pleasures of

evoking the unexpected pleasures of life as well as the soul's ability to triumph over loneliness and alienation

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Pestilence

discovering your emotions as the doorway to creative aliveness and ingenuity

The Wild Places Crafts evoking the unexpected pleasures ofThe Wild Places is both an intellectual and a physical journey, and Macfarlane travels in time as well as space. Guided by monks, questers, scientists, philosophers, poets and artists, both living and dead, he explores our changing ideas of the wild. From the cliffs of Cape Wrath, to the holloways of Dorset, the storm beaches of Norfolk, the saltmarshes and estuaries of Essex, and the moors of Rannoch and the Pennines, his journeys become the