In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should<BR/>not be there, wildernesses found in Europe yet seemingly belonging to far-off continents:<BR/>a patch of Arctic tundra in Scotland; the continent's largest surviving remnant of primeval<BR/>forest in Poland and Belarus; Europe's only true desert in Spain; and the fathomless<BR/>grassland steppes of Hungary.<BR/>From snow-capped mountain range to dense green forest, desert ravines to threadbare,<BR/>yellow open grassland, these anomalies transport us to faraway regions of the world.<BR/>More like pockets of Africa, Asia, the Poles or North America, they make our own<BR/>continent seem larger, stranger and more filled with secrets.<BR/>Against the rapid climate breakdown of deserts, steppes and primeval jungles across the<BR/>world, this book discovers the outlandish environments so much closer to home - along<BR/>with their abundant wildlife: reindeer; bison; ibex; wolves and h
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