Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness by Alastair Humphreys Groundswell Speaker 2024

Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness by Alastair Humphreys Groundswell Speaker 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024 'Agile, wryly funny and wise' Robert Macfarlane A search for nearby nature and wildness. After years of expeditions all over the world, adventurer Alastair Humphreys spends a year exploring the detailed local map around his home. Can this unassuming landscape, marked by the glow of city lights and the hum of busy roads, hold any surprises for the world traveller or satisfy his wanderlust?

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With English

and navigating the complex human world below

VintageISBN: 9781529919967Extent: 240 pages

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in hundreds of photographs

he returned to Ukraine with a desire to catalogue and promote his own national cuisine - free of influence from Soviet-era propaganda

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and infused with his characteristic humour