The Wild Places (book)

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}{{Short description|2007 book by Robert Macfarlane}}

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| name = The Wild Places

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| author = Robert Macfarlane

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| subject = Geography

| genre = Non-fiction

| publisher = Penguin Books

| release_date = 2007

| media_type = Print (hardcover and paperback)

| pages = 340

| isbn = 978-1-86207-941-0

| preceded_by = Mountains of the Mind

| followed_by = The Old Ways

| awards = Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature

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The Wild Places is a 2007 book by British writer Robert Macfarlane about the author's journey to explore and document the remaining wilderness of the British Isles.{{cite book|last=Macfarlane|first=Robert|title=The Wild Places|year=2008|publisher=Penguin|location=New York|isbn=9780143113935|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/wildplaces0000macf}} The book is separated into 15 chapters, each a description of Macfarlane's journey to a particular type of wild place, such as "Island", "Valley", and "Moor".{{cite news|last=Motion|first=Andrew|title=Mapping nature's heartlands|newspaper=The Guardian |date=25 August 2007 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/aug/25/featuresreviews.guardianreview4|publisher=theguardian.com|accessdate=26 September 2013}}{{cite book|title=The Wild Places [Paperback]|id={{ASIN|1847080189|country=uk}} }}{{cite news|last=Nicolson|first=Adam|title=The Wild Places, by Robert Macfarlane|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-wild-places-by-robert-macfarlane-463603.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301053528/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-wild-places-by-robert-macfarlane-463603.html |archive-date=1 March 2024 |url-status=live|publisher=The Independent|accessdate=11 March 2025|location=London|date=31 August 2007}}{{cbignore}}