An extraordinary account of searching for thewildness left in our world - spanning continents and geological eras, skies andoceans, animals and birds, and even the planets and stars.

With dizzying acuity and insight Roberts paints a portraitof a life and its landscapes, creating precious connections with wild creaturesand places, from swans in the Cambrian Mountains to wolves in the PacificNorthwest. By walking at dawn and dusk, in the two lights of awakening anddeepening, through the stripped, windswept hills of Wales, and the jungles andsavannahs of Africa, he tries to navigate from a soul-stripping sense of losstowards hope in the future.

In the presence of wild creatures he finds a way back tolife.