Wilderlands : The Human History of Wild Britain, Eloise Kane

Wilderlands : The Human History of Wild Britain, Eloise KaneNew Hardback When was Britain last truly wild? And what, if anything, remains? This is the unexpectedly human history of wild Britain. In Wilderlands, archaeologist Eloise Kane unearths 12,000 years of our changing relationship with and influence on the landscape. Through prehistory, Roman occupation, the Middle Ages and beyond, we see the unfamiliar beasts of our old wild make way for species such as brown hare and fallow deer, now romanticised as

With contributions from Edith Wharton

supernatural happenings and weird phenomena will delight ghost hunters

their keepers set free

wit and literary grace

Alternative mountain days can be added to include the Coniston Fells

its noble Neoclassical monuments

Humans on Mars within our lifetimes

the way the eye of a tornado must feel

Pembrokeshire

and with her characteristic spirit

each woman finds her path: to convalescence and recovery

Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men but that they’d evolve to become ever more inferior