Lone Wolf

WINNER OF THE SHERBORNE PRIZE FOR TRAVEL WRITING<BR>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION<BR>SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE<BR><BR>AN ECONOMIST, OBSERVER, AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2025<BR>A FINANCIAL TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES SUMMER READING PICK<BR><BR>'AN EXCEPTIONAL BOOK.' Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland<BR>'A BOLD, BEAUTIFUL, CONFRONTING JOURNEY.' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding<BR>'EVERY PAGE SINGS.' Rachel Clarke, Observer<BR><BR>From the winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award comes an epic walk across the Alps in the footsteps of a wolf, throwing unique light on Europe's mountainous hinterlands at a moment of political and environmental change.<BR><BR>In 2011, a young wolf named Slavc set out from Slovenia. Tracked by GPS, he travelled a thousand miles through the Alps, arriving four months later on the Lessinian plateau, north of Verona. There had been no wolves in northern Italy for a century, but here he crossed paths with a female wolf on a walkabout of her own. A decade later and there are more than a hundred wolves back in the area, the result of their remarkable meeting.<BR><BR>In Lone Wolf, Weymouth walks Slavc's path, examining the changes facing these wild corners of Europe. Here, the call to rewild meets the urge to preserve culture; nationalism and globalisation pull apart; climate change is radically changing lives; and migrants, too, are on the move.<BR><BR>The result is a multifaceted account of a region caught in a moment of kaleidoscopic flux, from an award-winning writer with a uniquely perceptive eye for detail.

Weymouth's prose has a glinting precision of analysis and evocation to it; his intense curiosity and empathy extend across species boundaries as well towards people and landscapes. Weymouth has written a deeply fascinating story, grippingly told. Robert Macfarlane, author of UNDERLAND