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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
see also individual types by name
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
Beowulf
Beresford, Maurice
Bernard, Oliver
Berry, James
Bidean nam Bian
Bin Chuanna
bindweed
birches
‘Birches’ (Frost)
birds
migrating
pesticides’ effects on
raptors
seabird colonies
see also individual types by name
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
Buile Suibhne
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
see also peregrini
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