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Walking Europe's Last Wilderness

By Nick Thorpe

Walking Europe's Last Wilderness

By Nick Thorpe

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An evocative voyage through the Carpathian mountain range and its threatened landscape, peoples, and history   The Carpathian Mountains of Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine are Europe’s last true wilderness. A landscape of great spruce and beech forests, grass meadows, and ancient villages, its people contend daily with the elements—as well as Europe’s last large carnivores. But this fragile ecosystem is now under threat, from climate change and illegal logging.   Journeying from the banks of the Danube to Transylvania, Nick Thorpe guides us through the history and ecology of the watershed of Europe, between the Black Sea and the Baltic. For a thousand years the Carpathians have been a place of refuge, of identity and belonging, where powerful rulers and dynasties fought to gain control over rich gold seams and the unruly inhabitants of strategic valleys. Today, its inhabitants struggle to protect its vast forest habitat from urban sprawl as well as logging.   Drawing on interviews with shepherds, foresters and loggers, and his four decades of experience in the region, Thorpe sheds light on a neglected part of Europe—where bears, wolves, chamois, and lynxes still roam.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
400
Release Date:
2026-03-10
Publication Date:
2026-03-10
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0300286910
ISBN13:
9780300286915
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
334 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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