Fowles, John, Wormholes (London, 1998)
Godwin, Fay, Land (London, 1985)
——, Our Forbidden Land (London, 1990)
——, The Edge of the Land (London, 1995)
Goldsworthy, Andy, Hand to Earth (London, 1990)
Hunter, James, A Dance Called America (Edinburgh, 1994)
——, The Other Side of Sorrow (Edinburgh, 1995)
King, Angela, and Sue Clifford, England in Particular (London, 2006)
Mabey, Richard, The Common Ground (London, 1980)
——, with Sue Clifford and Angela King, Second Nature (London, 1984)
Mellor, Leo, Things Settle (Norwich, 2003)
Perrin, Jim, Spirits of Place (Llandysul, 1997)
Pretty, Jules, The Earth Only Endures (London, 2007)
Rowley, Trevor, The English Landscape in the Twentieth Century (London, 2006)
Shoard, Marion, This Land is Our Land (London, 1987)
Taylor, Kenneth, and David Woodfall, Natural Heartlands (Shrewsbury, 1996)
Movement
Ammons, A. R., ‘Cascadilla Falls’, The Selected Poems (New York, 1986)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Coleridge among the Lakes & Mountains: from his Notebooks, Letters and Poems 1794-1804, ed. Roger Hudson (London, 1991)
Fulton, Hamish, Selected Walks: 1969-1989 (London, 1990)
Goldsworthy, Andy, Passage (London, 2004)
Graham, Stephen, The Gentle Art of Tramping (London, 1926)
Heaney, Seamus, and Rachel Giese, Sweeney’s Flight (London, 1992)
Holmes, Richard, Coleridge: Early Visions (London, 1989)
Lopez, Barry, Crossing Open Ground (New York, 1988)
——, About This Life (New York, 1998)
McCarthy, Cormac, Blood Meridian (New York, 1985)
Sebald, W. G., Die Ringe des Saturn [The Rings of Saturn], trans. Michael Hulse (Frankfurt, 1995)
Sinclair, Iain, London Orbital (London, 2000)
——, The Edge of the Orison (London, 2005)
Thomas, Edward, Wales (London, 1905)
Thoreau, Henry David, ‘Walking’ (Boston, 1862)
Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (New York, 1884)
Worpole, Ken, and Jason Orton, 350 Miles (Colchester, 2006)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank above all the following people: my wife Julia, my children Lily and Tom, my parents Rosamund and John, John and Jan Beatty, Peter Davidson, Roger Deakin, Walter Donohue, Michael Englard, Henry Hitchings, Sara Holloway, Julith Jedamus, Richard Mabey, Helen Macdonald, Garry Martin, Leo Mellor, Jim Perrin, John Stubbs and Jessica Woollard. Each of these people has been vital to the book’s shaping. I hope I have already conveyed my deep and specific gratitude to each of you.
I would also like to thank, for various reasons, Stephen Abell, Lisa Allardice, Richard Baggaley, Dick Balharry, Robin Beatty, Martyn Berry, Terence Blacker, Sean Borodale, Aly Bowkett, Sue Brooks, Christopher Burlinson, Ben Butler-Cole, Alan Byford, Jamie Byng, Michael Bywater, David Cobham, Stephanie Cross, Santanu Das, Tom Dawson, Rufus Deakin, Tim Dee, Guy Dennis, Ron Digby, Ed Douglas, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Lindsay Duguid, Samantha Ellis, Emmanuel College, Howard Erskine-Hill, Angus Farquhar, William Fiennes, Dan Frank, Edwin Frank, Charlie and Sinéad Garrigan Mattar, Iain Gilchrist, Dinny Gollop, Mark Goodwin, Jay Griffiths, Mike Gross, John Harvey, Alison Hastie, Kitty Hauser, Jonathan Heawood, Caspar Henderson, Jonathan Hird, Mike and Carol Hodges, Andrew Holgate, Jeremy Hooker, Michael Hrebeniak, James Hunter, Michael Hurley, Mary Jacobus, Joanna Kavenna, Peter Kemp, Steve King, Ann Lackie, Bill and Thelma Lovell, Madeleine Lovell, James and Claudia Macfarlane, John MacLennan, Finlay MacLeod, Annalena McAfee, Christina McLeish, Andrew McNeillie, Rod Mengham, Ann Morgan, Jeremy Noel-Tod, Ralph O’Connor, Redmond O’Hanlon, Jason Orton, Jeremy Over, David Parker, Ian Patterson, Donald and Lucy Peck, Sir Edward and Alison Peck, Jules Pretty, Guy Procter, Simon Prosser, Jeremy Purseglove, David Quentin, Satish Raghavan, Nicholas Rankin, Gary Rowland, Corinna Russell, Susanna Rustin, Ray Ryan, Jan and Chris Schramm, Nick Seddon, Tom Service, Rachel Simhon, Chris Smith, Rebecca Solnit, Barnaby Spurrier, Kenneth Steven, Peter Straus, Kenneth Taylor, Margot Waddell, Marina Warner, Simon Williams, Ross and Lesley Wilson, Mark Wormald and Ken Worpole.
I am very grateful to the following people at Granta for the expertise, care and patience they have shown during the writing and publishing of the book: Sajidah Ahmad, Louise Campbell, David Graham, Ian Jack, Gail Lynch, Brigid Macleod, Pru Rowlandson, Bella Shand, Matt Weiland, Lindsay Paterson and Sarah Wasley.
Certain books, writers and artists have also been influential and inspirational. The most important of these are included in the list of selected readings. The strongest influence, though, has been place itself. I have tried where possible to let the language of the book be thickened, refined or patterned by the forms of the landscapes with which it is concerned.
The map is by Helen Macdonald. The images prefacing ‘Island’, ‘Valley’, ‘Forest’, ‘River-mouth’, ‘Cape’, ‘Summit’, ‘Grave’, ‘Ridge’, ‘Saltmarsh’ and ‘Tor’, and the image ending ‘Tor’, are all copyright John Beatty; the images prefacing ‘Beechwood’, ‘Holloway’ and ‘Stormbeach’ are copyright Rosamund Macfarlane; the image prefacing ‘Moor’ is copyright John Macfarlane. I am grateful to all four of these people for permission to use their fine work here.
INDEX
Aberdovey
Abhainn Bà
Abruzzi mountains
After London, or Wild England (Jefferies)
alders
Algeria
Alison (Roger’s partner)
Allen, Bog of
Altnaharra
An Teallach
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Angus (forester)
animals, wild
importance of
see also individual types by name
Annapurna sanctuary
apes
Aran Islands
Arctic hares see snow hares
arrowheads: flint
Arthur, King
Arundell, Lady
Assynt
Auden, W. H.
aurora borealis
Australia
Avon Gorge
axe-heads
B. B.
Bachelard, Gaston
Bad Step
badgers
Bagnold, Ralph
Baker, John
Bamford Edge
Barnhill
The Baron in the Trees (Calvino)
basalt
Beatty, Jan
Beatty, John
Bedolina
beeches
Beinn Alligin
Bellshiel Law
Ben Alder
Ben Hope
Ben Klibreck
Benbecula
Beowulf
Beresford, Maurice
Bernard, Oliver
Berry, James
Bidean nam Bian
Bin Chuanna
bindweed
birches
‘Birches’ (Frost)
birds
migrating
pesticides’ effects on
raptors
seabird colonies
see also individual types by name
Black Corries
Black Cuillin
Black Lough see Doo Lough
The Black Prophet (Carleton)
Black Wood (Coille Dubh)
Blaenau
Blake, William
Blakeney Point
Bleaberry Tarn
bleak: etymology
boats
reed
types used by peregrini
Bodmin Moor
Borges, Jorge Luis
Bosgrave, Thomas
The Box of Delights (Masefield)
brachiation
Braeriach
Brandsby Hall
Branksome Chine
Breachan’s Cave
Brecklands
Brendon Chase (B. B.)
Britain
car statistics
contrasting coastlines
crowdedness
deforestation
end of Ice Age
loss of wildness
openness in
population statistics
principal rock types
brochs
Brown, Robert
Browne, Thomas
Buachaille Etive Mor
Buchan, John
Buile Suibhne
burial, wild
Burren
Burton Bradstock
Buttermere
buzzards
Cabot, John
Cadbury
Cairngorms
Calvino, Italo
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
Cannock Chase
Canvey Island
Cape Wrath
Carey, John
Carleton, William
cartography see maps
Cathair Chomain
Cather, Willa
Catholicism: recusant England
caves
Cedd, St
Celtic Christianity
missions
see also peregrini
Chalamain Gap
Chatsworth
Cheddar Gorge
Chernobyl disaster ()
cherry trees
Chesil Bank
Chideock
Chieti POW camp
China
respect for trees
shan-shui tradition
Clare, John
Clearances
Cley marshes
climate change
Clo Mor
Coille Dubh see Black Wood
Coire na Creiche
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
conifers
Constable, John
Copper Hill
coracles (curricles)
Cormaic
Cornelius, John
Cornish, Vaughan
Coruisk valley
Coryton oil refineries
Cotman, John Sell
Croagh Patrick
Cromwell, Oliver
crows
curraghs
Dakotan peoples
Dancing Ledge
Danckwerts, Elsa
Dark Peak
darkness
effect on the wild
fascination of
human depletion of
Dartmoor
dawn
Deakin, Roger
author’s gifts to
background and relationship with author
books by
car
death and funeral
friends
on Gawain’s route
and hedges
and trees
trip to the Burren
trip to Dorset holloway network
trip to Orford Ness
trip to Staverton Thicks
on Walberswick
Walnut Tree Farm
Deakin, Rufus
Dedham Vale
deer
Defoe, Daniel
Dengie Peninsula
Denhay Hill
deserts
Devil’s Beeftub
Digby, Ron
Dione
Dod Hill
dolphins
Domesday Book
Doo Lough (Black Lough)
Dorset
holloways
linglands
sand patterns
Druim Rolach
Du Fu
ducks
Dumble
Dun Loughan Bay
Dungeness
dunlin
Dunwich
Dutch elm disease
earth: movement in space
eddy-curves
Egypt
eiders
Eilean Neave
Eliot, T. S.
elms
Enlli see Ynys Enlli
Essex
floods
country version
modern reshaping of landscape
retail version
Exmoor
eyes: workings of
Feast of the Ascension
fig trees
First World War
flint
floods
flora
Burren
see also individual types by name
Flows
Foinaven
forests see woods
Forster, E. M.
Forvie sand desert
Fowles, John
foxes
Frost, Robert
fulmars
Gabriel, Angel
The Garden of Cyrus (Browne)
Garraun mountains
Garvellochs
geese
gentians
The Gentle Art of Tramping (Graham)
geology: principal British rock types
Gervase of Tilbury
Gilgamesh
glaciers
formation process
retreat after Ice Age
Glastonbury
Glen Bolcain
Glen Coe
Glen Feshie
global warming see climate change
Gloucestershire
glow-worms
goldcrests
Gorda Basin Earthquake ()
Graham, Stephen
Gran Sasso
The Great American Forest (Platt)
Greenland
Griffin, Kevin
Grind of Navir
grouse moors
guillemots
gulls
Gurney, Ivor
‘Hallaig’ (MacLean)
Hampstead Heath
Hardy, Thomas
hares
Harris
Harrison, Fraser
Harrison, Robert Pogue
hawks
heaths
hedges and hedgerows
Helen (author’s friend)
herons
High Crag
High Stile
Highland Clearances see Clearances
Himalayas
Hoggar Mountains
Hograve, Colonel
Holkham Bay
holloways
Dorset
etymology
history and spread
Hope Valley
hornbeams
horse chestnuts
Household, Geoffrey
Hutchinson, Sara
Ice Age: end of
Inaccessible Pinnacle
Incas
Indian Ocean
indifference: sense of world’s
Inuit
Iona
Ireland
Cromwell in
Great Famine
loss of wildness
principal rock types
roadside signs
isolarions
isostatic rebound
Jackson, Barry
Jamaica
Jan see Beatty, Jan
Jan’s Hill
Jarman, Derek
Jefferies, Richard
John see Beatty, John
Jura
Kafka, Franz
kestrels
Kidnapped (Stevenson)
Kinder Scout
King’s Lynn
Kingston, Jamaica
Kipling, Rudyard
knarrs
Koyukon people
Laindon
Lake District
Lake Geneva
Lancashire Mosses
Langdale
Langewiesche, William
larches
Lastingham
Lecky (Poor Law Guardian)
Leitir Mhuiseil
Leo (author’s friend)
Leslie . R.
Letterewe Forest
Lewis . S.
Li Po
Libya
light
effects
of artificial
human adaptation to different levels
north-western coasts
photon travel
limestone
Lindisfarne
Linnet, Walter
Lleyn Peninsula
Loch Awe
Loch Bà
Loch Coruisk
Loch Eriboll
Loch Laidon
Loch Lomond
Loch Scavaig
Lodore Falls
London: recusant sites
Londonderry
Lost Valley
Louisburgh
Lu Yu
Ludlow, General Edmund
Macfarlane, Lily
Macfarlane, Robert
childhood
family burial places
father
favourite small-scale wild places
home
talisman collection
MacInnes, Hamish
Mackay, Donald
MacKenzie, Alexander
MacLean, Sorley
MacLeod, Donald
McRory-Smith, James (Sandy)
Madonna
Maes Howe
Manwood, John
maps
grid and story maps
Marban
mare’s tails
Masefield, John
Maskelyne, Nevil
Mass Trespass ()
Maxwell, Gavin
Melville, Herman
Mendips
mergansers
meteor showers
metric system
Milne, A. A.
Moby-Dick (Melville)
Moffat
Moher, Cliffs of
monks
Celtic missions
peregrini
Moon, William Least-Heat
moonlight
behaviour of
effects on sight
and snow
Moosburg POW camp
Morecambe
Morrison, Cathel
Moss Force
moths
Mountaineering in Scotland (Murray)
mudflats: how to walk on
Muir, John
Mull
Murdoch, Iris
Murray, W. H.
on beauty
and Ben Alder
and Coruisk
life
and the Lost Valley
and Rannoch Moor
Mweelrea
Nanda Devi sanctuary
Narnia books
Nash, Paul
Nash, Roderick
Native Americans
Natural History of Selborne (White)
nature
power to reclaim human landscapes
studies of patterns in
see also wildness and the wild
Nelson, Richard
New Forest
New Guinea
Ngorongoro Crater
Nicholson, Asenath
night sight
night-walking
Nine Wells Wood
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell)
Norfolk:floods
North Harris
North Rona
North Yorkshire Moors
Northumbrian Moors
oaks
Ogilby, John
Okement valley
‘On Exactitude in Science’ (Borges)
On Growth and Form (Thompson)
open space: effects
Orchy, Bridge of
Orford Ness
Orkney
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