Kings of the Yukon

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION<BR><BR>BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week<BR>A Financial Times Book of the Year 2025<BR>A Times and Telegraph Best Book of the Summer 2026<BR><BR>'AN EXCEPTIONAL BOOK.' Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland<BR>'A BOLD, BEAUTIFUL, CONFRONTING JOURNEY.' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding<BR>'LOVELY ... FULL OF INCIDENT, COLOUR AND NUGGETY FACTS.' Robbie Millen, The Times<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>In 2011, a young wolf named Slavc set out from Slovenia. Traced 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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.

WINNER OF THE SHERBORNE PRIZE FOR TRAVEL WRITING<BR>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION<BR>SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE<BR><BR>AN ECONOMIST, OBSERVER, AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2025<BR>A FINANCIAL TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES SUMMER READING PICK<BR><BR>'AN EXCEPTIONAL BOOK.' Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland<BR>'A BOLD, BEAUTIFUL, CONFRONTING JOURNEY.' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding<BR>'EVERY PAGE SINGS.' Rachel Clarke, Observer<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.

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.<BR><BR>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 Themen unserer Zeit: die Veränderung der Natur durch den Klimawandel, 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.<BR><BR>Adam Weymouth schreibt von der Wolfsnatur ebenso feinsinnig wie von den Landschaften und den Mentalitäten, denen er auf seiner Reise begegnet.