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As of 2008 half the world's population is living in towns and cities. The natural world is rarely seen, let alone experienced and enjoyed. For many of us the wild has become somewhere we never go.
Call of the Wild wants to help put us back in touch with nature.
Every month from May to November, Penguin is publishing a new book about the wild places that we've forgotten, abandoned or simply ignore. Call of the Wild is your place to get hold of free extracts from each book as well as extra stuff you won't find anywhere else: podcast interviews, original articles and much more.
Come back to nature every month and see what new wild thing we've got for you.
For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakin kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations. Discursive, personal and often impassioned, they reveal the way he saw the world, whether it be observing the teeming ecosystem that was Walnut Tree Farm, thinking about the wider environment, walking in his fields or on Mellis Common, or quietly contemplating his past and his present life.
Roger Deakin discusses the windmill at Mellis Common near Walnut Tree Farm.
Obsession, persecution and passion: the hedgehog may be small, but it attracts strong feelings. And is not immune. Travelling through fields in Devon and up to the islands of Scotland, visiting hedgehog hospitals across Britain and the International Hedgehog Olympics in the USA, traveling across China on the trial of the rare hedgehog species hughi, seen only twelve times in a 100 years, Hugh Warwick sets out to answer our questions about hedgehogs, from the practical to the sublime.
Read about hedgehogs and being lured into a nocturnal world of snuffles and prickles.
» Jay Griffiths and Wild
» Roger Deakin's and Wildwood
» Christopher Somerville and Britain and Ireland's Best Wild Places
» Robert Preston and The Wild Trees
» Chris Yates and Out of the Blue & Tom Robinson and The Last Pool of Darkness
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