The Last Wilderness: A Journey into Silence From the icy seas of

From the icy seas of our poles to remote coral islands

Freelance environmental journalist Sophie Yeo examines how the Earth would have looked before humans scrubbed at its diversity: landscapes shaped by megafauna

Drawn to wildlife conservation

creating habitats for birds and insects

to their romantic relationships and parenting styles

The Last Wilderness: A Journey into Silence From the icy seas ofNeil Ansell's The Last Wilderness is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has spent his lifetime taking solitary ventures into the wild; a perfect read for anyone who has enjoyed Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways or William Atkins The Moor. The experience of being in nature alone is here set within the context of a series of walks that Neil Ansell takes into the most remote parts of Britain, the rough bounds in the Scottish