Adam Weymouth

"Travel writing? Climate change? Here's a book that does it all. . . . [Weymouth] writes like Annie Dillard, Bruce Chatwin and Jack London suspenseful and sensitive storytelling and sumptuous descriptions." --National ObserverThe Yukon River is 3,190 kilometres long, flowing northwest from British Columbia through the Yukon Territory and Alaska to the Bering Sea. Every summer, millions of salmon migrate the distance of this river to their spawning ground, where they go to breed and then die. The Chinook is the most highly prized among the five species of Pacific salmon for its large size and rich, healthy oils. It has long since formed the lifeblood of the economy and culture along the Yukon--there are few communities that have been so reliant on a single source. Now, as the region contends with the effects of a globalized economy, climate change, fishing quotas and the general drift towards urban life, the health and numbers of the Chinook are in question, as is the fate of the communities that depend on them. Travelling in a canoe along the Yukon River with the migrating salmon, a three-month journey through untrammeled wilderness, Adam Weymouth traces the profound interconnectedness of the people and the Chinook through searing portraits of the individuals he encounters. He offers a powerful, nuanced glimpse into the erosion of Indigenous culture, and into our ever-complicated relationship with the natural world. Weaving in the history of the salmon run and their mysterious life cycle, Kings of the Yukon is extraordinary adventure and nature writing and social history at its most compelling.

An illuminating account of one wolf's journey across the Alps into Italy, and what the resurgence of wolves says about our connection to nature, immigration, and each other—from an award-winning journalist.In 2011, a wolf named Slavc left his home territory of Slovenia for a wide-ranging journey across the Alps. Tracked by a GPS collar, he traveled over 1,200 miles, where he would mate with a female wolf on a walkabout of her own—the only two wolves for hundreds of square miles—and start the first pack to call the Italian Alps home in more than a century. A decade later and there are more than a hundred wolves in the area, the result of their remarkable meeting. Now, journalist Adam Weymouth follows Slavc's path on foot, and in doing so, interrogates the fears and realities of those living on land that is being repopulated by wolves; a metaphor for economic, political, and climate upheaval in a region that is seeing a centuries-old way of life being upended. Weymouth journeys to understand how wolves—vilified throughout history in literature, art, and folklore—are slowly creeping back into our forests, woods, and sometimes even our towns, and what that deep-rooted terror at the back of our minds really means. Slavc serves as the ultimate symbol for the outsider, journeying through places that are now wrestling with an influx of immigration, a resurgence of the far-right wing, and the steady decline of the environment due to the rapid advance of climate change; the question of how we see the other and treat the earth becomes paramount in everyday lives. Examining the political dimensions that this individual animal's trek brings to light, Lone Wolf tells a newly resonant story—one less about fear and more about the courage required to seek out a new life, as well as the challenge of accepting the changing world around us.Sharply observed, searching, and written in poetic and precise prose, Lone Wolf explores the thorny connection between humans and nature, and indeed between borders themselves, and presses us to consider this much-discussed creature anew.

È il 2011 e il lupo Slavc lascia le montagne slovene dove è nato. Nel corso di un gelido inverno arriva in Austria, poi in Italia e si stabilisce in Lessinia, nel veronese, dove mette su famiglia con un'altra lupa errante ribattezzata Giulietta. Prima che partisse, in Italia del Nord non si vedevano lupi da secoli. Oggi, da lui discendono interi branchi. Ma l'Europa non è la stessa che ha fa sempre più caldo, c'è stata la Brexit. L'Unione difende i confini con il filo spinato e il populismo dilaga. In un continente cambiato, Adam Weymouth segue a piedi le orme di Slavc, provando a guardare il mondo con gli occhi del lupo, al passo con la natura. Dobbiamo impedire il ritorno del grande carnivoro? Sparargli a vista? O è giusto proteggerlo e accettare che siamo parte di un ecosistema fatto di prede e predatori? Tra un valico e l'altro, frontiera dopo frontiera, il lupo diventa un per alcuni, del selvaggio, dell'istinto feroce, ma anche della cura per i piccoli. Per altri, dell'invasore, del clandestino. Lo raccontano studiosi, contadini, attivisti di microcosmi dimenticati d' dal Carso, crogiolo di lingue e violenza, alla Carinzia, terreno di conquista dell'estrema destra; dal ghiacciaio della Marmolada, ferito e morente, agli altopiani veronesi spopolati. Ultime roccaforti di una cultura in via d'estinzione che da sempre coesiste con un ambiente complesso, ma spesso anche laboratori per una politica che cavalca la rabbia. Con la curiosità del giornalista, lo spirito dell'avventuriero e la penna dello scrittore, Adam Weymouth si chiede cosa ne sarà del nostro continente e dei suoi grandi predatori – lo specchio in cui vorremmo rifletterci, ma anche il capro espiatorio di un futuro imprevedibile.

Eine fesselnde literarische Reportage von einem der interessantesten Reiseschriftsteller Großbritanniens.Seit einem Jahrhundert wurden in Norditalien keine Wölfe mehr gesichtet. Doch eines Tages begibt sich ein junger Wolf von seiner Heimat Slowenien aus auf Wanderschaft. Per GPS getrackt, legt er mehr als tausend Kilometer quer durch die Alpen zurück.Der britische Reiseschriftsteller Adam Weymouth folgt seiner Spur von Slowenien über Österreich nach Italien und kommt unterwegs mit den Alpenbewohnern ins Gespräch. Seine Begegnungen zeigen, dass der Wolf lange Zeit nur noch in Märchen und Fabeln zuhause war. Mit seiner Rückkehr in die Wälder Europas werden alte Ängste und neue Vorurteile geschürt und mischen sich mit den bewegenden Themen unserer die Veränderung der Natur durch den Klimwandel, der zunehmende Nationalismus und der Umgang mit Geflüchteten. Denn in den Wäldern, die der Wolf durchstreift, verstecken sich auch schutzsuchende Menschen auf dem Weg in ein besseres Leben.Adam Weymouth schreibt von der Wolfsnatur ebenso feinsinnig wie von den Landschaften und den Mentalitäten, denen er auf seiner Reise begegnet.Der Wolf ist zurück in Europa. Eine fesselnde literarische Reportage von einem der interessantesten Reiseschriftsteller Großbritanniens.»Weymouth hat auf den Spuren eines Wolfes eine beeindruckende, tausend Meilen lange Reise unternommen, mitten hinein in das Herz der Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Tier.« (Robert Macfarlane, Autor von »Im Unterland«)Autor ausgezeichnet Young Writers of the Year Award der Sunday Times.»Eine herausragende neue Stimme.« (Sunday Times)»Adam Weymouth ist ein einem Atemzug mit den großen Reiseschriftstellern wie Chatwin, Thubron und Leigh Fermor zu nennen.« (Susan Hill)Deutschsprachige Erstausgabe