Wild Places, Wild Encounters: Exploring Edinburgh's Living Landscape

The book explores how to appreciate and understand the natural world, using encounter-based photography, connection with nature, and reading the landscape. It highlights the mental health crisis sweeping the globe and the need to slow down and seek reconnection with nature to revitalise and sustain us.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 28 June 2024
Publisher: Whittles Publishing

This book is about reconnecting with nature and the personal benefits that can come from it. It explores how we can appreciate the natural world on our doorstep through encounter-based photography, connection with nature, and reading the landscape. The industrial growth society has generated ecological disasters such as acid rain, the hole in the ozone layer, the sixth mass extinction, and climate collapse, and we are waking up to the fact that this society is fundamentally extractive and exploitative. Healing this relationship requires us to slow down and seek reconnection with nature, which can help revitalize and sustain us. Wild Places, Wild Encounters provides the means to break this cycle by exploring the green heart of Scotland's capital city and the wild nature reserves of the Lothians. Nature is still there, all around us.

Weight: 690g
Dimension: 239 x 172 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781849955713