Lone Wolf

Walking the Faultlines of Europe

Adam Weymouth

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Hutchinson Heinemann
29 June 2025

Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Conservation of wildlife & habitats; The natural world, country life & pets; Walking, hiking, trekking

From the winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award comes an epic walk across the Alps in the footsteps of a wolf, throwing unique light on Europe's mountainous hinterlands at a moment of political and environmental change.

From the winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award comes an epic walk across the Alps in the footsteps of a wolf, throwing unique light on Europe's mountainous hinterlands at a moment of political and environmental change.

In 2011, a young wolf named Slavc set out from Slovenia. Tracked by GPS, he travelled a thousand miles through the Alps, arriving four months later on the Lessinian plateau, north of Verona. There had been no wolves in northern Italy for a century, but here he crossed paths with a female wolf on a walkabout of her own. A decade later and there are more than a hundred wolves back in the area, the result of their remarkable meeting.

In Lone Wolf, Weymouth walks Slavc's path, examining the changes facing these wild corners of Europe. Here, the call to rewild meets the urge to preserve culture; nationalism and globalisation pull apart; climate change is radically changing lives; and migrants, too, are on the move.

The result is a multifaceted account of a region caught in a moment of kaleidoscopic flux, from an award-winning writer with a uniquely perceptive eye for detail.

PRAISE FOR ADAM WEYMOUTH

'A really outstanding new contemporary British voice' Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times 'Adam Weymouth takes his place beside the great travel writers like Chatwin, Thubron, Leigh Fermor, in one bound' Susan Hill, DBE 'Dazzling' Kamila Shamsie

By: Adam Weymouth
Imprint: Hutchinson Heinemann
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 222mm, Width: 142mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 485g
ISBN: 9781529151947
ISBN 10: 1529151945
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 29 June 2025
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Adam Weymouth's work has been published widely, including in Granta, The Atlantic, The Observer and the BBC. His first book, Kings of the Yukon, tells the story of his 2000-mile canoe trip across Alaska. It won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, the Lonely Planet/ Stanfords Adventure Travel Book of the Year and the Prix Paul-Emile Victor. He has been named by the National Writing Centre as one of ten writers shaping the UK's future.

Reviews for Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe

Sharing Adam Weymouth’s epic journey across Europe in the footsteps of a pioneering wolf is to walk the knife-edge between the tame and the wild. A bold, beautiful, confronting journey charting a continent buckling under social and environmental pressure. A book about a wolf, about love and hate, and our conflicted relationship with nature and our fellow human beings. A timely and fascinating read -- Isabella Tree, author of WILDING A majestic and hopeful journey, movingly told by one of our master storytellers -- Ben Rawlence, author of THE TREELINE