Her previous book 'Islands of Abandonment' was a favourite of mine, and Cal was kind enough to make a contribution to my GA Conference, and zoomed in to speak to a group of teachers about her work and the idea of islands of abandoned places. This was then turned into a workshop for the SAGT Conference later that year.
Her latest book is definitely one for geographers.
The cover features a striking vertical image of lava covering a road and an ice covered landscape by Ael Kermare.
In the book, Cal explores the ideas of wilderness. Is this an area which has an absence of human activity, or is wilderness actually a human construct. Is it possible to find oneself in a wilderness?
In the book's 10 chapters Cal travels to different parts of the world to investigate a different facet of 'wilderness' as a concept.
I am preparing a full review of the book and some curriculum links, as I did for Anjana Khatwa's 'The Whispers of Rock' and it will appear here shortly.
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