Getaway

A book to change your mind

What is wilderness? The 1964 US Wilderness Act defined it as ‘an area where the Earth and its community of life are untrammelled by man, where man himself is a visitor and does not remain.’

But is that still relevant … or possible? Wilderness is under

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