There are still wild places out there on our crowded planet.
Through a series of personal journeys, Dan Richards explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans and deserts. Following a route from the Cairngorms of Scotland to the fire-watch lookouts of Washington State; from Iceland's 'Houses of Joy' to the Utah desert; frozen ghost towns in Svalbard to shrines in Japan; Roald Dahl's writing hut to a lighthouse in the North Atlantic, Richards explores landscapes which have inspired writers, artists and musicians, and asks: why are we drawn to wilderness? What can we do to protect them? And what does the future hold for outposts on the edge?
There are still wild places out there on our crowded planet.
Through a series of personal journeys, Dan Richards explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans and deserts. Following a route from the Cairngorms of Scotland to the fire-watch lookouts of Washington State; from Iceland's 'Houses of Joy' to the Utah desert; frozen ghost towns in Svalbard to shrines in Japan; Roald Dahl's writing hut to a lighthouse in the North Atlantic, Richards explores landscapes which have inspired writers, artists and musicians, and asks: why are we drawn to wilderness? What can we do to protect them? And what does the future hold for outposts on the edge?
Dan Richards is the co-author of Holloway (with Robert Macfarlane
and Stanley Donwood) and the author of The Beechwood Airship
Interviews and Climbing Days. He has written for The Guardian,
Harper's Bazaar, Caught by the River, Monocle and The Quietus. He
is an RLF Fellow at Bristol University.
@Dan_Zep
There's a special magic in Richards' luminous descriptions of
nature and place, but also in the stories he tells . . . Richards
has penned a thoughtful and beautifully written meditation on our
quest to find spaces in which we can find something unexpected in
ourselves and forge a new relationship with the natural world
* * Guardian * *
Richards' prose is by turns beautiful, funny, evocative and
learned, the pages illuminated by lovely, warming footnotes . . .
[Richards' voice is] vivid, self-deprecating, literary and very,
very funny
* * Observer * *
Dan Richards is a wonderful storyteller, wise, wry and
open-hearted, the perfect travelling companion. Outpost tells
stories of emptiness, but is bursting with gorgeous life and
language. It is a joy to read
*MAX PORTER*
Vivid, funny and moving - a wonderful stylist
*SARAH PERRY*
Fascinating and funny
* * Financial Times * *
Dan Richards is brave, bold, pure of spirit and, on occasion,
foolish. In Outpost Dan follows both his father's footsteps and his
own heart to explore the furthest possibilities of human
habitation, and our interface with a changing wilderness.
Intelligent, surreal and always generous, Dan Richards is a Jerome
K. Jerome for our set-upon times who bequeaths us that rarest gift
- laughter
*KATHARINE NORBURY, author of The Fish Ladder*
This book will be equally at home in the library of the armchair
traveller and the kitbag of the weather-beaten nomad - Dan Richards
has created an atlas of adventure for every reader possessed of an
intrepid imagination
*NANCY CAMPBELL, author of The Library of Ice*
Dan Richards is that rare thing, a writer whose way of looking at
the world is utterly unique . . . Outpost is shot through with a
sense of wonder, an infectious enthusiasm and a surreal wit. Pure
joy
*RUPERT THOMSON*
An incredible book, beautifully written, wild and wickedly
funny
*PHILIP HOARE*
Just my kind of book, stuffed full of telling oddities, strange
encounters and lyricism. Richards brings to us the supreme joy,
glory and terror of what it is to be truly isolated in the wild
*BENEDICT ALLEN*
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