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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

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

Beresford, Maurice

Bernard, Oliver

Berry, James

Bidean nam Bian

Bin Chuanna

bindweed

birches

‘Birches’ (Frost)

birds

migrating

pesticides’ effects on

raptors

seabird colonies

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

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

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