A review by grahammcgrew
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane

3.0

Kind of a poor man's British Craig Childs? I enjoyed vicariously visiting the moors, holloways and woods he describes. And he quotes some hot passages from other sources, like the monks of remote isles. But he seems a bit precious, a bit 'Look at me, I can climb a peak, sleep on an ice floe, go to the library, AND write about it!' In short, a pale shadow of Childs' effortless blend of knowledge, lyrical yet accurate evocation of landscape and peoples, and the occasional compelling personal reflection -- but, a not bad travelogue of some wildernesses of the UK.