Conservation policies across Europe have been encouraging ‘re-wilding’ of landscapes, including the re-introduction for animals that once roamed more freely. Scientists have been tracking such re-introductions, and back in 2011, a wolf left its family pack in Slovenia, crossed the Alps and journeyed across Europe for thousands of kilometres.
Critically-acclaimed and celebrated travel writer Adam Weymouth, chose to follow on foot this wolf’s journey, in part to discover more about the lives of wolves and how they may take to being reintroduced, as well as how they might be welcomed in these wild places by the humans they encounter.
Is the wolf’s journey a metaphor for other species, especially human migrants, as they seek new homes in Western Europe?
“A bold, beautiful, confronting journey charting a continent buckling under social and environmental pressure. A book about a wolf, about love and hate, and our conflicted relationship with nature and our fellow human beings.” Isabella Tree, author of WILDING.

Walking Writers Salons are hour-long events in which you will get to meet a Walking Writer and learn from them how they weave writing and walking, and how they interpret their surroundings. Each Salon will include a discussion with the author, inviting questions from the audience, and may include a multiple choice quiz or other amusing challenge, in which a winner will receive a prize. We are very grateful to Hutchinson / Heinemann Adam’s publishers for offering two complimentary e-books of “Lone Wolf” as prizes.
