{"product_id":"the-savage-landscape-9780008686536","title":"The Savage Landscape","description":"From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Islands of Abandonment, comes a new book about our relationship to the natural world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book takes us into the wild - deep into dark forests, to the top of mountains and into the heart of deserts. It addresses our deep yearnings to be awed and inspired by landscapes that remain beyond our reach and examines what nature gets up to in the absence of humans.In 10 chapters, each loosely structured around a visit to some of the world's wildest and most invigorating landscapes, the book asks provocative questions about the nature of wilderness and how wild places might best be appreciated or preserved.These locations have been chosen for their physical beauty, their perceived isolation, and the moral or emotional complexity of the human stories that can be found there. In this search for wilderness, we will meet ascetics in search of theophany in the desert; lonely shepherds seeing off wolves under the stars; missionaries preaching from shacks deep in the jungle; wise lamas meditating under lofty mountain peaks.\u003ch2\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h2\u003eCal Flyn is a freelance journalist from the Highlands of Scotland.  She has been a reporter for the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph, and a contributing editor at The Week magazine.  She has been published in the New Statesman, The Observer, The Independent, Telegraph Magazine and FT Weekend, and won the 2013 Brandt\/Independent on Sunday travel writing prize. THICKER THAN WATER is her first book.","brand":"Cal Flyn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44273706598461,"sku":"9780008686536","price":28.04,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/x1000_bffd3918-249a-4390-a71f-a4ae40a72e10.jpg?v=1793668688","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/the-savage-landscape-9780008686536","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}