Across a Waking Land is the story of nature writer Roger Morgan-Grenville, who sets out on a 1000-mile walk through a British spring, to see if there are reasons to be hopeful about the natural world. His aim is to match the pace at which oak leaves emerge (roughly 20 miles north each day).
Fed up with bleak headlines of biodiversity loss, he fights illness, blizzards (and his own ageing body) to visit every main habitat from between Lymington and Cape Wrath, in an epic 8-week adventure. And meets those who are fighting for nature (along with kind strangers) with life-changing and positive conclusions.
High upon a Pennine fell, I am sheltering in the lee of a dry-stone wall, watching driven snow scudding across a copper sky over my head. I watch it gathering on my pack, feel it on my neck and cheek. A few metres to my right, an old Swaledale ewe lies tight to the wall, lumps of frozen snow gathering in her fleece. She is eyeing me sullenly and going nowhere.
About the AuthorÂ
Roger Morgan-Grenville is a former soldier who now writes and campaigns on conservation issues. He is chair of trustees of the conservation charity Curlew Action.
