Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills

Neil Ansell spent five years living between the back of beyond and the middle of nowhere, on his own, with no electricity, gas or water and effectively only the wildlife around him for company. His dilapidated cottage, rented for £100 per year, is so exposed to the elements that it appears to rain uphill, and so remote that you can walk for twenty miles west without seeing a single other dwelling. As the years pass he feels himself dissolving into, and becoming, just another part of the landscape. Deep Country is an astonishing, immersive book about turning your back on modern life, about focusing on your surroundings, and about what it means - in these fast-moving times - to stay still.