Once there were six sisters. The pretty one, the musical one, the clever one, the helpful one, the young one.. . And then there was the Wild one. Dortchen Wild has loved Wilhelm Grimm since she was a young girl. Under the forbidding shadow of her father & the tyranny of Napoleon`s army, the pair meet secretly to piece together a magical fairy tale collection. The story behind the stories of the Brothers Grimm. ...

A new compendium of adventures, from the best-selling Wild Guide series (winner of travel guidebook of the year 2015). This guide to Portugal, one of Europe`s fastest growing adventure holiday destinations, explores the hidden parts of its better known tourist areas, as well many more remote regions, rarely visited by tourists. Guiding you to over 800 wild swims, ancient forests, lost ruins & hidden beaches. Including traditional eateries, local festas & rustic places to stay. ...

Longlisted for THE WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE 2017. Clover Stroud`s idyllic childhood in rural England was shattered when a horrific riding accident left her mother permanently brain-damaged. Just sixteen, she embarked on a journey to find the sense of home that had been so savagely broken. Travelling from gypsy camps in Irel&, to the rodeos of west Texas & then to Russia`s war-torn Caucasus, Clover eventually found her way back to England`s lyrical Vale of the White Horse. The Wild Other is a grippingly honest account of love, loss, family & the healing strength of nature. Powerful & deeply emotional, this is the story of an extraordinary life lived at its fullest. ...

Clover Stroud grew up in rural Wiltshire surrounded by animals & family. When she was just sixteen her adored mother had a horrific riding accident which left her permanently brain-damaged, & suddenly Clover was left to fend for herself. She embarked on an extraordinary journey to heal her broken heart, courting men & danger through two marriages & five children. The Wild Other is a grippingly honest account of love, sex & travelling to the darkest edges of human experience & back again. Powerful & deeply emotional, this is the story of an extraordinary life lived at its fullest. ...

In The Wild Places, Robert Macfarlane embarks on a series of beautifully described journeys in the remaining wildernesses of Britain & Irel&. The result is both an intellectual & a physical journey, with the author travelling in time as well as space. Guided by monks, questers, scientists, philosophers, poets & artists, both living & dead, he explores our changing ideas of the wild. From the cliffs of Cape Wrath, to the holloways of Dorset, the storm-beaches of Norfolk, the saltmarshes & estuaries of Essex, & the moors of Rannoch & the Pennines, his journeys become the conductors of people & cultures, past & present, who have had intense relationships with these places. His journeys take him through some of the most remarkable landscapes of the British Isles. He climbs, walks & swims through these places in rainstorm, sunshine & blizzard, by darkness & by day. He spends nights sleeping out on cliff-tops & remote beaches, deep in snowy woods, on pilgrim islands, mountain summits, & ancient meadows. He bathes in phosphorescent seas, walks frozen rivers at night, & watches a red sun rise over Arctic Engl&. Certain birds, animals, trees & objects
- snow-hares, falcons, beeches, crows, suns, white stones
- recur, & as it progresses this densely patterned book begins to bind tighter & tighter. At once a wonder voyage, an adventure story, an exercise in visionary cartography, & a work of natural history, ” The Wild Places” is written in a style & a form as unusual as the places with which it is concerned. It also tells the story of a friendship, & of a loss. It mixes history, memory & landscape in a strange & beautiful evocation of wildness & its vital importance. In the course of his journeys, Macfarlane’s own understanding of wildness undergoes a transformation. This is Macfarlane’s second book, following his prize-winning debut ” Mountains of the Mind”. He has established himself as a writer of both lyrical elegance & precision; he has also acquired a reputation as a passionate & acute observer of the natural world.

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` An Iron Man style fable for our age` Piers Torday on THE WILD ROBOTThe sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter Brown Roz is no ordinary robot. After being washed up on the shore of a remote & wild isl&, she learned to adapt & make it her home, befriend its animal inhabitants & even adopt a small orphaned gosling, Brightbill. But a new life is now beginning for Roz
- she has been taken away, far away from her isl&, back to civilisation. Where she must pretend that she is a robot like any other
- there to follow orders & to carry out tasks on the farm where she now works. She knows she must never let anyone find out who she really is. & more than anything, she must find a way to escape, back to the island & her beloved Brightbill
- a journey that will be fraught with danger & drama, & some very unexpected surprises.. .


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Mike Parker's The Wild Rover is an intelligent & witty exploration of a glorious & passionate British subject
- footpaths & our
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Mike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, is back with a very full, intelligent & witty exploration into a glorious & passionate British subject
- footpaths & the history of land ownership. Mike discovers how these paths have become part of our cultural landscape & why, at the tender age of 44, he suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Provocative, funny & personal, this book celebrates Britain`s unique & extraordinary network of footpaths. It examines their chequered & surprisingly turbulent history, from the Enclosures Acts of the eighteenth century to the 1932 Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout in Derbyshire; & from the hard-won post-war establishment of great National Trails like the Pennine Way to the dramatic latter-day battles by the likes of Nicholas van Hoogstraten & Madonna to keep ramblers off their l&. The story ranges far & wide, to all corners of the country & beyond, & is filled with the many characters that Mike engages with along the way
- the poets & artists, farmers & ramblers, landowners & Rights of Way officers & campaigners, historians, archivists & anyone else who crosses his path (or even tries to block it).

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A fresh translation of the classic fairy tale of courage & a sister`s love A king has eleven sons & one daughter-Elisa. When he marries an evil woman, she turns the princes into swans & banishes the princess from the palace. After years of loneliness & sorrow, Elisa finds her beloved brothers again. But the spell that has been cast on them is powerful, & the price of returning her brothers to human form might be too much for her to bear. The Wild Swans is the story of a sister`s love for her brothers- & her fight to save them, whatever it may cost. This volume also

Includes:: The Nightingale, Hans Christian Andersen`s classic fairy tale of song & salvation.

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The key missing piece of Jon Krakauer`s multi million, multi territory bestseller & widely acclaimed Sean Penn film Into the Wild is finally revealed by his best friend & sister, Carine. The story of Chris Mc Candless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to Alaska, walked into the wilderness alone, & starved to death in 1992, fascinated not just New York Times bestselling author Jon Krakauer, but the rest of the nation too. Krakauer`s book & a Sean Penn film skyrocketed Chris Mc Candless to worldwide fame, but the real story of his life & his journey has not yet been told
- until now. Carine Mc Candless, Chris`s sister, featured in both the book & film, was the person with whom he had the closest bond, & who witnessed firsthand the dysfunctional & violent family dynamic that made Chris willing to embrace the harsh wilderness of Alaska. Growing up in the same troubled & volatile household that sent Chris on his fatal journey into the wild, Carine finally reveals the broader & deeper reality about life in the Mc Candless family. For decades, Carine & Chris`s parents, a successful aerospace engineer & his beautiful wife, raised their children in the tony suburbs of Northern Virginia. But behind closed doors, her father beat & choked her mother. He whipped Carine & Chris with his belt. He cursed them, belittled their accomplishments, & told them they were nothing without him. Carine & Chris hid under the stairs, hoping to avoid his wrath. They were teenagers before they learned they were conceived while their father was still married & having babies with his first wife, who finally summoned the courage to leave him after he broke her back in a fight. In the 20-plus years since the tragedy of Chris`s death, she has searched for some kind of redemption. But in this touching & deeply personal memoir, she reveals how she has learned that real redemption can only come from speaking the truth. Finally, she has found the truth not just in her brother`s story, but also her own.
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