Outpost

Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth

Author: Dan Richards

Read by: Dan Richards

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Digital Audiobook

Duration
07:51.38

Published: 18th October 2018

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An exploration of the outposts set along the edges of civilisation and their impact on the human spirit, from the co-author of Holloway.

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. 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 writing hut to a lighthouse in the North Atlantic, Richards explores landscapes which have inspired writers, artists and musicians, and asks: why are we drawn to wilderness? What can we do to protect them? And what does the future hold for outposts on the edge?

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, Monocle and The Quietus. He is an RLF Fellow at Bristol University.

Industry Reviews

"There's a special magic in Richards' luminous descriptions of nature and place, but also in the stories he tells . . . Richards has penned a thoughtful and beautifully written meditation on our quest to find spaces in which we can find something unexpected in ourselves and forge a new relationship with the natural world"
Guardian

"Richards' prose is by turns beautiful, funny, evocative and learned, the pages illuminated by lovely, warming footnotes . . . [Richards' voice is] vivid, self-deprecating, literary and very, very funny"
Observer

"Fascinating and funny"
Financial Times