
Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills (Paperback)
Neil Ansell (author)- 10+ in stock
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 man's relationship with it. Deep Country is a celebration of rural life and the perfect read for fans of Robert Macfarlane's Landmarks, Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk orJames Rebanks' A Shepherd's Life.
Neil Ansell spent five years living on a remote hillside in Wales, and wrote his first book, Deep Country, about the experience. Since that time, he has become an award-winning television journalist with the BBC. He has travelled in over fifty countries and has written for the Guardian, the New Statesman and the Big Issue.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141049328
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 160 g
Dimensions: 201 x 133 x 14 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Touching. Through Ansell's charming and thoroughly detailed stories of run-ins with red kites, curlews, sparrowhawks, jays and ravens, we see him lose himself . . . in the rhythms and rituals of life in the British wilderness' - The Financial Times
'Remarkable, fascinating' - Time Out
'A gem of a book, an extraordinary tale. Ansell's rich prose will transport you to a real life Narnian world that CS Lewis would have envied. Find your deepest, most-comfortable armchair and get away from it all' - Countryfile'A beautiful, translucent portrayal of mid-Wales' - Jay Griffiths
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“Simply 206 pages of bird watching”
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This book is a small and delightful little trinket. Ansell emersed himself in the surroundings of the Welsh landscape, the book being a pair of rimless glasses through which he wears taking you with him, seeing what... More
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