- Title:
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Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth
- Written by:
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Dan Richards
- Read by:
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Dan Richards
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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7
- Duration:
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7 hours 53 minutes
- Published:
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May 01 2020
- Available Date:
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May 01 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655664543
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Lifestyle - Travel
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Canongate audio
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There are still wild places out there on our crowded planet.
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. Their untamed nature is part of their beauty and such places have long drawn the adventurous, the spiritual and the artistic.
For those who go in search of the silence, isolation and adventure of wilderness it is – perhaps ironically – to man-made shelters that they often need to head; to bothies, bivouacs, camps and sheds. Part of the allure of such refuges is their simplicity: enough architecture to keep the weather at bay but not so much as to distract from the natural world.
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 Metro-land writing hut to a lighthouse in the North Atlantic, Richards explores landscapes which have inspired us and asks: why are we drawn to wilderness? What can we do to protect it? And what does the future hold for outposts on the edge?
'Dan Richards’s erudition and sense of fun shines through this meditation on the appeal of remote places.'
The Guardian