Name: Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth
ISBN: 9781786891556

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Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth

Dan Richards

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For those who go in search of the isolation, silence and adventure of wild places it is--perhaps ironically--to the man-made shelters that they need to head; the outposts: bothies, bivouacs, cabins and huts. Part of their allure is their simplicity: enough architecture to shelter from the weather but not so much as to distract from the immediate environment around.

From the Cairngorms of Scotland to the fire-watching huts of Washington State, from Iceland's Houses of Joy to the desert of New Mexico, and from the frozen beauty of Svalbard to the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, Richards visits the outposts and witnesses the landscapes, and asks: why are we drawn to wilderness? And how do wild places become a space for inspiration and creativity?

Book Details

Publisher: Canongate Books
Publish Date: Jul 2nd, 2019
Pages: 288
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.60in - 5.70in - 1.20in - 1.05lb
EAN: 9781786891556
Categories: • Essays & Travelogues

About the Author

Dan Richards is the co-author of Holloway (with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood) and the author of The Beechwood Airship Interviews and Climbing Days. He has written for the Guardian, Harper's Bazaar, Caught by the River, the Quietus, Ernest Journal and Lodestars Anthology.

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"Climbing Days is a special book, not quite like anything I have ever read before, and a law unto itself. It's a wayward, funny, warm, wandering, open, inspiring journey back into the lives of two remarkable people, and out into the remarkable landscapes they explored. Climbing Days belongs in part to a rich comic tradition of mountain-writing which includes Bowman's The Ascent of Rum Doodle and Eric Newby's A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush."----Robert Macfarlane

"Climbing Days is the most enormous fun... Richards has something of Jerome K Jerome about him. It's a miracle he lived to tell this tale and Climbing Days is a wonderful achievement. I will be intrigued to see where he takes us next."-- "--Observer"