Wildly Different, Sarah Lonsdale

Wildly Different, Sarah LonsdaleNew Hardback The globe trotting tales of five women who fought for the right to enjoy the wild places of the earth. For millennia the wild was a place heroic men went on epic quests. Women were prevented from joining them, either through physical control or powerful myths about what would happen if they ventured beyond the city wall or village boundary. So how did women claim their place in the remote and lovely parts of our planet? In Wildly

and the landscape is dotted with old quarry workings

from England to New Zealand

though in general the actual killings were carried out by others

We measure the world to know our past

Let the reader beware: FIRESTARTER is Stephen King at his most mesmerising

each featuring wildlife unique to the area: from white-tailed eagles on the Isle of Mull and red squirrels in Northumberland

in the trenches from the Crimea to the Western Front

Hitler's grooming kit

We all float down here

Lev Parikian asked his readers those very questions

Graham Hoyland found and filmed footprints of the mythical yeti in a part of the country that has never before been visited by Western explorers

Arlo likes their home just as it is