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Places in the book

Explore the landscapes of New Wildernesses, chapter by chapter.

Choose a chapter to discover its photographs.

Dense green floodplain woodland seen through the arch of an old brick bridge, with a stream below.

Chapter 1

Floodplain Jungle

1 photographs

A flooded slate quarry with sheer grey rock faces, surrounded by scrub, with mountains beyond.

Chapter 2

Deep Stone

3 photographs

Leaning willows and alders reflected in a still lake fringed with woodland.

Chapter 3

A Lost World in the City

1 photographs

Reeds standing in calm water at sunset, with a few trees on the horizon.

Chapter 4

Reed Song

2 photographs

Close-up of bright green sphagnum moss with grass stems growing through it.

Chapter 5

The Lost Mosslands

2 photographs

Layered sandstone cliffs topped with vegetation rising from calm sea water.

Chapter 6

Torridonian Island

1 photographs

A rusting tank standing in an expanse of golden grassland.

Chapter 7

Savannah

1 photographs

A tall stone mill chimney rising from a steep wooded valley in autumn colours.

Chapter 8

Ruins in the Forest

1 photographs

Bare dead trees standing in open tidal water where a field hedgeline once grew.

Chapter 9

Our Tilting Land

3 photographs

Pale sand slopes of a giant dune among tall pine trees and heather.

Chapter 10

The Moray Desert

2 photographs

A rusted metal hatch on the concrete of a coastal gun battery, surrounded by thicket and misty sea views.

Chapter 11

Emplacement

2 photographs

Ivy-covered gravestones and crosses among dense green trees in an overgrown cemetery.

Chapter 12

Tomb-Land

1 photographs

A green, overgrown railway cutting seen through a brick bridge arch.

Chapter 13

Hidden in the Fields

2 photographs

Multi-trunked trees on a sunlit slope in ancient woodland.

Chapter 14

Woodland Wilding

1 photographs

A fieldfare perched in a hawthorn tree laden with red berries.

Chapter 15

An Extraordinary Land

2 photographs