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Neil Ansell's THE LAST WILDERNESS is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has spent his lifetime taking solitary ventures into the wild. For any readers of the author's previous book, DEEP COUNTRY, Robert Macfarlane's THE OLD WAYS or William Atkins THE MOOR. 'A gem of a book, an extraordinary tale. Ansell's rich prose will transport you to a real life Narnian world that C.S.Lewis would have envied. Find your deepest, most comfortable armchair and get away from it all' Countryfile The experience of being in nature alone is here set within the context of a series...

Acclaimed nature writer Neil Ansell has suffered from progressive hearing loss his whole life. As his world has become ever more silent, the extraordinary and unexpected experience of hearing the haunting call of the great northern diver makes him realise that there might still be remarkable sounds in nature that might be within his reach – if he only he was in the right place at the right time. This remarkable, moving book is the story of a journey to hear rare and elusive creatures that he had never previously encountered and takes him to the mountaintops and islands of the Scottish...

Deep Country is Neil Ansell's account of five years spent alone in a hillside cottage in Wales. 'I lived alone in this cottage for five years, summer and winter, with no transport, no phone. This is the story of those five years, where I lived and how I lived. It is the story of what it means to live in a place so remote that you may not see another soul for weeks on end. And it is the story of the hidden places that I came to call my own, and the wild creatures that became my society.' Neil Ansell immerses himself in the rugged British landscape, exploring nature's unspoilt wilderness and...