Lakeland Wild

With a naturalists eye and a poets instinct, acclaimed nature writer Jim Crumley traces the place of our first and most famous National Park in the evolution of global conservation and pleads the case for a far-reaching reappraisal of its wildness.Books of the Year, Mark AveryThe Lake District is one of Englands busiest national parks. Many people believe that wildness is long gone from the fells, lakes, tarns and becks, yet, within its boundaries, Jim Crumley sets out to prove them wrongto find a new way of seeing and writing about this most seen and written about of landscapes.With a naturalists eye and a poets instinct, he is drawn to Lakelands turned-aside places where nature still thrives, from low-lying shores to a high mountain oakwood that is not even on the map. Through backwaters and backwoods, Crumley traces this captivating lands place in the evolution of global conservation and pleads the case for a far-reaching reappraisal of all of Lakelands wildness.