📗 Libro en inglés WALKING EUROPES LAST WILDERNESS

An evocative voyage through the Carpathian mountain range and its threatened landscape peoples and history The Carpathian Mountains of Poland Slovakia Romania and Ukraine are Europe s last true wilderness A landscape of great spruce and beech forests grass meadows and ancient villages its people contend daily with the elements as well as Europe s last large carnivores But this fragile ecosystem is now under threat from climate change and illegal logging Journeying from the banks of the Danube to Transylvania Nick Thorpe guides us through the history and ecology of the watershed of Europe between the Black Sea and the Baltic For a thousand years the Carpathians have been a place of refuge of identity and belonging where powerful rulers and dynasties fought to gain control over rich gold seams and the unruly inhabitants of strategic valleys Today its inhabitants struggle to protect its vast forest habitat from urban sprawl as well as logging Drawing on interviews with shepherds foresters and loggers and his four decades of experience in the region Thorpe sheds light on a neglected part of Europe where bears wolves chamois and lynxes still roam