Outpost : A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth

There Are Still Wild Places Out There On Our Crowded Planet. Through A Series Of Personal Journeys, Dan Richards Explores The Appeal Of Far-flung Outposts In Mountains, Tundra, Forests, Oceans And Deserts. These Are Landscapes That Speak Of Deep Time, Whose Scale Can Knock Us Down To Size. Their Untamed Nature Is Part Of Their Beauty And Such Places Have Long Drawn The Adventurous, The Spiritual And The Artistic. For Those Who Go In Search Of The Silence, Isolation And Adventure Of Wilderness It Is Perhaps Ironically To Man-made Shelters That They Often Need To Head; To Bothies, Bivouacs, Camps And Sheds. Part Of The Allure Of Such Refuges Is Their Simplicity: Enough Architecture To Keep The Weather At Bay But Not So Much As To Distract From The Natural World. Following A Route From The Cairngorms Of Scotland To The Fire-watch Lookouts Of Washington State, From Iceland's 'houses Of Joy' To The Utah Desert; Frozen Ghost Towns In Svalbard To Shrines In Japan; Roald Dahl's Metro-land Writing Hut To A Lighthouse In The North Atlantic, Richards Explores Landscapes Which Have Inspired Writers, Artists And Musicians, And Asks: Why Are We Drawn To Wilderness? What Can We Do To Protect Them? And What Does The Future Hold For Outposts On The Edge? Hotel California, Ny-ålesund -- Sæluhús, Iceland -- Simon Starling -- Shedboatshed -- Desolation Peak, Wa, Usa -- Mars, Utah -- Bothies, Scotland -- Phare De Cordouan, France -- Foundation Jan Michalski Pour L'écriture Et La Littérature, Switzerland -- November/december 2017 -- Nageire-dō, Sanbutsu-ji, Mount Mitoku, Japan -- Svalbard, Norway. Dan Richards. Includes Bibliographical References. Maps On Endpapers. There Are Still Wild Places Out There On Our Crowded Planet. Through A Series Of Personal Journeys, Dan Richards Explores The Appeal Of Far-flung Outposts In Mountains, Tundra, Forests, Oceans And Deserts. These Are Landscapes That Speak Of Deep Time, Whose Scale Can Knock Us Down To Size. Their Untamed Nature Is Part Of Their Beauty And Such Places Have Long Drawn The Adventurous, The Spiritual And The Artistic. For Those Who Go In Search Of The Silence, Isolation And Adventure Of Wilderness It Is Perhaps Ironically To Man-made Shelters That They Often Need To Head; To Bothies, Bivouacs, Camps And Sheds. Part Of The Allure Of Such Refuges Is Their Simplicity: Enough Architecture To Keep The Weather At Bay But Not So Much As To Distract From The Natural World. Following A Route From The Cairngorms Of Scotland To The Fire-watch Lookouts Of Washington State, From Iceland's 'houses Of Joy' To The Utah Desert; Frozen Ghost Towns In Svalbard To Shrines In Japan; Roald Dahl's Metro-land Writing Hut To A Lighthouse In The North Atlantic, Richards Explores Landscapes Which Have Inspired Writers, Artists And Musicians, And Asks: Why Are We Drawn To Wilderness? What Can We Do To Protect Them? And What Does The Future Hold For Outposts On The Edge? Hotel California, Ny-ålesund -- Sæluhús, Iceland -- Simon Starling -- Shedboatshed -- Desolation Peak, Wa, Usa -- Mars, Utah -- Bothies, Scotland -- Phare De Cordouan, France -- Foundation Jan Michalski Pour L'écriture Et La Littérature, Switzerland -- November/december 2017 -- Nageire-dō, Sanbutsu-ji, Mount Mitoku, Japan -- Svalbard, Norway. Dan Richards. Includes Bibliographical References. Maps On Endpapers. There are still wild places out there on our over-crowded planet. Through a series of personal journeys, Dan Richards explores their romantic and exploratory appeal. Wildernesses, seemingly untouched by man's hand: mountains, tundra, forests, oceans and deserts. These are landscapes that speak of deep time, whose scale can knock us down to size. Their wildness is part of their beauty and such places have long drawn the adventurous, the spiritual, the artistic. For those who go in search of the isolation, silence and adventure of wild places it is - perhaps ironically - to the man-made shelters that they need to head; the outposts: bothies, bivouacs, cabins and huts. Part of their allure is their simplicity: enough architecture to shelter from the weather but not so much as to distract from the immediate environment around. Following a route from the Cairngorms of Scotland to the fire-watching huts of Washington State, from Iceland's Houses of Joy to the desert of New Mexico, and from the frozen beauty of Svalbard to a lighthouse perched in the Atlantic, Richards uncovers landscapes which have inspired writers, artists and musicians, and asks: why are we drawn to wilderness? And how do wild places become a space for inspiration and creativity? For those who go in search of the isolation, silence and adventure of wild places it is{u2015}perhaps ironically{u2015}to the man-made shelters that they need to head; the outposts: bothies, bivouacs, cabins and huts. Part of their allure is their simplicity: enough architecture to shelter from the weather but not so much as to distract from the immediate environment around. From the Cairngorms of Scotland to the fire-watching huts of Washington State, from Iceland's Houses of Joy to the desert of New Mexico, and from the frozen beauty of Svalbard to the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, Richards visits the outposts and witnesses the landscapes, and asks: why are we drawn to wilderness? And how do wild places become a space for inspiration and creativity? www.amazon.com An exploration of the outposts set along the edges of civilisation and the impact that visiting these has on the human spirit, from the co-author of Holloway An exploration of the outposts set along the edges of civilisation and their impact on the human spirit, from the co-author of Holloway