LONE WOLF

A wolf s footsteps followed a continent s faultlines traced Adam Weymouth has made a formidable thousand mile foot journey both in the tracks of a wolf and into the heart of human animal relations in contemporary Europe and written an exceptional book about it His prose has a glinting precision of analysis and evocation to it his intense curiosity and empathy extend across species boundaries as well towards people and landscapes Robert Macfarlane author of UNDERLAND A bold beautiful confronting journey charting a continent buckling under social and environmental pressure A book about a wolf about love and hate and our conflicted relationship with nature and our fellow human beings Timely and fascinating Isabella Tree author of WILDING From the winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award comes an epic walk across the Alps in the footsteps of a wolf throwing unique light on Europe s mountainous hinterlands at a moment of political and environmental change In 2011 a young wolf named Slavc set out from Slovenia Tracked by GPS he travelled a thousand miles through the Alps arriving four months later on the Lessinian plateau north of Verona There had been no wolves in northern Italy for a century but here he crossed paths w