📗 Libro en inglés IN THE HIDE

Our estate was built on land claimed from fields we were at the foot of those rolling Kilpatrick hills but over the roof of the school you could see more green fields and woods I felt grateful to be on the edge of all that countryside there was a magnetic pull towards what I thought that wild was or could be One day I m going to walk to those hills and woods I d think to myself Soon it would become a sanctuary Gordon Buchanan is probably the best known natural history cameraman the BBC has ever produced From wild snow wolf packs in Ellesmere and polar bears in Svalbard to leopards in Mumbai and equine therapy in Mongolia he has filmed in the world s most far reaching places for over 30 years His dedication to his craft means he often spends weeks inside a cramped camera hide tolerating extreme sleep deprivation and poor living conditions all in search of that one extraordinary shot But dangerous animals were not the only thing he was hiding from In the Hide is Gordon s emotionally honest and raw account of a brutal childhood in Glasgow and Mull and the escape and solace he found and continues to find in the natural world around him An intimate and inspiring account of resilience in the face of hardship In the Hide marks the arrival of