Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness by Alastair Humphreys Groundswell Speaker 2024 'The good news for those

'The good news for those who loved THE ACCIDENTAL FOOTBALLER: this new book is even better

Then Sally meets Noah

in hundreds of photographs

and navigating the complex human world below

Utterly absorbing' Sunday Times

Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness by Alastair Humphreys Groundswell Speaker 2024 'The good news for thoseSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024 'Agile, wryly funny and wise' Robert Macfarlane A search for nearby nature and wildness. After years of expeditions all over the world, adventurer Alastair Humphreys spends a year exploring the detailed local map around his home. Can this unassuming landscape, marked by the glow of city lights and the hum of busy roads, hold any surprises for the world traveller or satisfy his wanderlust?