The New Forest is hardly the sort of wild or remote place where you
would expect to get lost, especially if you are an experienced
traveller, but Douglas Botting managed it. 'There were no sounds of
civilization to give us a bearing on the outside world, no
distinguishable landmarks, just trees, and more trees, and
clearings, thickets, groves, gullies leading nowhere in particular,
and trees again.' As he explains in this warm and lyrical book, it
does not do to underestimate wild Britain. He makes a wonderful job
of showing you around, taking you from the broad-leaf woodlands of
southern England to the wind-lashed basalt and granite cliffs of
the Outer Hebrides. Whether he is celebrating the rolling Yorkshire
Dales of his childhood, where the lapwings cried and the
bluebottles huzzahed in the cowpats, or engaging with the
earth-shattering intricacies of plate tectonics, Douglas Botting is
always readable and entertaining. The book also describes in detail
where to go fishing, climbing, cycling, caving, riding, camping and
even ballooning, and offers some unusual ideas for where to stay,
including the time capsule of Kinloch Castle on the Isle of Rhum,
intact in every detail down to the scoreboard of its Edwardian
billiard room.
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