The Great Outdoors Book club
Book OF THE MONTH
Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth
by Dan Richards pb Canongate Books, £9.99
From a Scottish bothy to an experimental Mars base, the author explores “the romantic, exploratory appeal of cabins and isolated stations”
What was your overall impression of Outpost?
When I first read about the book, I was expecting it to be more about the author and his experiences in the places he writes about. But it’s more than that – for example, the chapter on Scottish bothies had lots in it about history, art; and when he describes tardigrades as “microscopic moss piglets” with “faces like crushed Coke cans” – it was just really relatable humour.
