{"product_id":"the-savage-landscape-how-we-made-the-wilderness","title":"The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"[E]ndlessly fascinating . . . \n\u003ci\u003eThe Savage Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e will undoubtedly make you see our world anew.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Intelligent . . . where other nature writers spatter wildflife facts . . . Flyn offers insight. She uses the wild to dose herself against modernity and its alienations \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eeven to treat the condition of humanity itself.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Flyn's stamina is matched by acute sensitivity. She has the travel writer's gift for living an experience and simultaneously pinning it to the page. Her research is phenomenal, and she writes compellingly of the history of the places she visits.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Cal Flyn goes looking for answers to a troublesome question: what is wilderness? \n\u003ci\u003eThe Savage Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of searching in the best sense--full of ideas, beauty, doubts, and adventures.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sixth Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Cal Flyn is one of the most exciting writers around--for the poetry and precision of her prose, for the vast scope of her learning, for her fearless (and self-questioning) spirit. In \n\u003ci\u003eThe Savage Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e, she opens one door after another, to wonder, to terror, to rich and mixed feelings, so that we can see the world anew and in all its deepest dimensions. This book is at once thrilling adventure and bracing meditation.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Pico Iyer, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAflame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Profound, exhilarating, and suffused with nuanced wit and insight. \n\u003ci\u003eThe Savage Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e is essential and deeply rewarding reading for all who seek to understand the wild in our psyches and in the world. Flyn's explorations are bold, sometimes terrifyingly so, and subtly attuned to paradox, fracture, and beauty. A must-read: put this book on the top of your list.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--David George Haskell, two-time Pulitzer finalist and author of \u003ci\u003eHow Flowers Made our World \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Cal Flyn examines our relationship with the wild places of the earth--and the meaning of wilderness itself--with an unflinching eye. \n\u003ci\u003eThe Savage Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e is a beguiling book: by turns lyrical, learned, and provocative.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Ed Caesar, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Moth and the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sublime and uplifting. Throughout history, people have been drawn to the wild to seek beauty, wealth, God, or themselves. Encroached upon and endangered today, Cal Flyn reveals how much we can still discover in wilderness, both as an idea and a vital part of the living world.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--David Farrier, author of \u003ci\u003eNature's Genius\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A deep, personal and transporting exploration of what we think nature is and, by extension, who we think we are too. In Flyn's wise hands, our relationship with the more than human world is revealed to be the most important relationship of all.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Ben Rawlence, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Treeline\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A thrilling, tender, acute tour through the wildernesses of the world outside us and the far wilder worlds inside. Why does the desolate allure? It's an urgently important, complex question. We need to know for the sake of our souls, our politics, and our planet. Flyn is the perfect guide.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Charles Foster, author of \u003ci\u003eCry of the Wild \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Fascinating and masterfully written, Cal Flyn's \n\u003ci\u003eThe Savage Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration of wildness in both nature and humankind. Brilliant!\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Alice Winn, author of \u003ci\u003eIn Memoriam \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Cal Flyn has given us a beautiful, engrossing, vitally new view of a most ancient idea. This is a tremendous book, full of wisdom and curiosity, that overwhelmed me with its insights into the natural world and the human heart that loves it so. \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Jaime Green, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Possibility of Life\u003c\/i\u003e and the series editor of \u003ci\u003eBest American Science and Nature Writing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Flyn delivers an exhilarating exploration of the nature and meaning of wild lands . . . blend[ing] exciting travel writing with deep philosophical discussions. Readers will be forced to rethink what wilderness is and whom it benefits.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] thoughtful account of journeys to wild places that, one hopes, will remain that way.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An intellectual look at wilderness for those looking for more than the typical armchair adventure.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCal Flyn\u003c\/b\u003e is the current Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan University, deputy editor of the literary recommendations site \n\u003ci\u003eFive Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and has written for publications including \n\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \n\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. Cal is a fellow of MacDowell and Yaddo, has been a writer in residence at Gladstone's Library and at the Jan Michalski Foundation in Switzerland, and was named a 2022 \n\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Young Writer of the Year. She was the winner of the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the John Burroughs Medal and was a finalist for the Wainwright Prize, the British Academy Book Prize, the Ondaatje Prize, and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA lyrical exploration of the world's wildest, most forbiddingly remote places--and the humans who have always been there, by an award-winning and critically acclaimed writer\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the blacksand beaches of Iceland, to river crossings deep in the Amazon jungle, to the barren beauty of Antarctica, wildernesses make up some of the world's more alluring natural landscapes. But what is a wilderness, really? It is a powerful, ancient concept, lying at the intersection of landscape, philosophy, and ecology. And for thousands of years, people have sought out uncontrolled, unknown, or uncharted nature in search of religious epiphany, self-actualization, and an escape from modern life. More recently these \"pristine\" places have been seen as the subject of a last effort to repair a planet imperiled by humans. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut as award-winning writer Cal Flyn traverses the most forbidding, untamed and inhospitable wild lands--the supposedly uninhabited wilds of the world--she finds that such truly untouched lands don't exist: Nearly every wilderness has been or is actively inhabited by humans. Here we meet ascetics in search of theophany in the desert; lonely shepherds running off wolves under the stars; missionaries preaching from shacks deep in the jungle; wise lamas meditating under lofty mountain peaks. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Savage Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e takes us into these breathtaking wilds--deep into dark forests, to the tops of mountains, and into the hearts of deserts--asking provocative questions about the nature of wilderness, its preservation, and its meaning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/27\/2026 (EAN 9780593833087, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/01\/2026 (EAN 9780593833087, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 07\/01\/2026 (EAN 9780593833087, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Viking","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496187232534,"sku":"9780593833087","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780593833087.jpg?v=1783057055","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/the-savage-landscape-how-we-made-the-wilderness","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}