Wild Places, Wild Encounters: Exploring Edinburgh's Living Landscape - Thursday 26th September 2024

Join us at Golden Hare Books to hear Glen Cousquer in discussion with Peter Cairns about Glen's new book, Wild Places, Wild Encounters: Exploring Edinburgh's Living Landscape.

Buy a copy of Wild Places, Wild Encounters and receive a free ticket to the event. Or choose our £5 Ticket-Only, which can be used towards a copy of a the book at the event.

Thursday 26th September 2024 at 6.30pm.

Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street, EH3 5AQ.

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About Wild Places, Wild Encounters

This is a book about reconnecting to nature wherever we find ourselves living and the personal benefits that can ensue. It explores how we can appreciate the natural world on our doorstep in line with the latest research from a range of disciplines, including ecology, outdoor and environmental education, learning for sustainability and mindfulness studies. It does so by means of a blend of encounter-based photography, connection with nature and reading the landscape.

There has been a tendency for people to lose contact with nature. The industrial growth society generated a catalogue of ecological disasters including acid rain, the hole in the ozone layer, the sixth mass extinction and climate collapse. Slowly, we are waking up to the fact that this society is fundamentally extractive and exploitative and the burden of costs has shifted onto the environment and future generations.

In appreciating and understanding the enormity of this crisis, we risk compounding it with the mental health crisis that is sweeping the globe. Healing that relationship requires us to slow down and to seek reconnection with nature which can help revitalise and sustain us. Life passes by all too fast when we are oblivious to nature's presence and are unable to be fully involved in nature.

Wild Places, Wild Encounters provides the means to break this cycle. The book's essence is essentially about reconnecting with and learning to relate to nature as explored in these wanderings through the green heart of Scotland's capital city and the wild nature reserves of the Lothians. Nature is still there, all around us.

About Glen Cousquer

Glen Cousquer is a Writer, Photographer, International Mountain Leader and Veterinary Surgeon who actively uses narrative and photography to help individuals, communities and organisations understand, explore and reimagine their relationship(s) with animals and the environment. His work is about connection, systems thinking, holism and empathy. Glen's interests cover a number of subject areas including human-animal relations, veterinary medicine, wild animal medicine, wildlife, birds. mountains and mountaineering, travel and tourism.