Lone Wolf

An excellent book. Literary reportage at its best. Weymouth has the flare of Joan Didion and the eye for striking detail of Ryszard Kapuscinski.

In Lone Wolf, Adam Weymouth reaffirms his position as a hugely valuable guide to complicated, contemporary problems – environmental breakdown, human migration, political fragmentation – problems we have no choice but to confront now.

Robert Penn, author of THE MAN WHO MADE THINGS OUT OF TREES

A majestic and hopeful journey, movingly told by one of our master storytellers

Ben Rawlence, author of THE TREELINE

Adam Weymouth has the extraordinary ability to narrate a global story of conflict and climate, migration and intolerance, vulnerability and resilience, through the lens of one species. One instinctively trusts what he writes because his senses are so finely tuned to the natural world - including to us corrosive humans - and his precise prose balances simplicity with depth, erudition and wistfulness.

Tobias Jones, author of THE DARK HEART OF ITALY

An intricate, intimate interweaving of wolf and human worlds, Weymouth's journey acts like a thread that draws the two together. His storytelling is as supple and powerful as the wolf itself, perfectly paced and balanced. A book full of hope for recovery in a fractured continent.

Nick Hunt, author of OUTLANDISH

Through the footsteps of the wolf, Weymouth reveals the ‘faultlines’ of Europe, the faultlines in nature, and some of the faultlines of the human condition. He achieves an imperative of our times: he has written a book that weaves natural ecology to human ecology in one scintillating fabric

Professor Alastair McIntosh, author of SOIL AND SOUL and POACHER'S PILGRIMAGE

Adam Weymouth is a fine, fine writer - beautifully balanced, dexterous, sensitive, and gifted with the ability to create the most haunting images. His portrait of the wolf in this immensely thoughtful and inventive book is astounding and at time jaw-dropping, his account of the natural and cultural world through which it travels profound. Like Bruce Chatwin, he’s equally at home with nature, culture and people and approaches them all with the same insight. Wonderful.

Andrew Holgate

Lone Wolf beautifully explores the intertwined histories of wolves and humans in some of the remotest parts of Europe. Adam Weymouth brings nuance and sensitivity to the fraught question of how humans can – or should – co-exist with the wilder species we live among and has an uncanny ability to bring to life these creatures as they move like quicksilver through the landscape. Lone Wolf encourages us to examine our thoughts around the politics of borders, the management of habitats, and asks questions about how we might live with grace on our planet.

Joanna Pocock,. author of SURRENDER

Lone Wolf is a major addition to the lupine literary canon — at once a gripping animal adventure story and a thoughtful meditation on history, wanderlust, and belonging in a globalized world. Few writers see this mythologized and misunderstood predator as clearly as Adam Weymouth

Ben Goldfarb, author of CROSSINGS and EAGER

Lone Wolf is a fascinating story that travels deep into both the natural and human world to shine a light on the puzzling contradictions within European farms, farming and the agricultural mind. It is a delight to read, and, in the best ways, deeply troubling. I loved this book

Hugh Brody