Dartmoor has always been my landscape of firsts. Of the UK’s 15 national parks, it was my debut moorland at four years old, freshly landed from the humidity of Augusta, Georgia in the US, where my brother and I were born. Our parents, both naval officers at the time, were keen for this chapter on British soil to take a more outdoors approach. The types of adventures we’d assumed were fiction were suddenly possible on our doorstep. Living just nine miles from
