《荒野之境》内容简介

　　爬上郊外的山毛榉树，遥望久居的都市夜景，罗伯特·麦克法伦难以抑制自己对荒野的想象和渴望。这世界上还有荒野吗？他决定抛开密布公路和建筑的地图，去图上未知的空白处，去寻找藏于巨壑深谷中的野性。

　　从威尔士的海滩到埃塞克斯的盐沼，从苏格兰的红峰到多塞特的陷路，他日间攀援、漫步、游泳，夜里露宿在悬崖之上、古老的峡谷和深林之中。他在孤岛寻觅隐士的居所，在海岬撞见世界大战的遗骸，跟随野鹿的足迹进入森林，以优雅的写作将历史、记忆与风景交织在一起，绘制一份记录鹰隼和岩石的荒野文学地图。

　　麦克法伦如同导游，带我们逃离都市的禁锢，每一章的行走和书写都是一次脱离人类视角的新奇之旅——在人类的世界之外，还有一个更广大的世界。最终，我们随他回到那棵山毛榉树，远处都市的夜晚也焕然一新，重新闪耀着野性的火花。

　　如同沿途拾得的纪念物，我们将寻回对周边世界的敏锐和想象，荒野就存在于日常和附近——刺出公路的杂草，郊外的一片林地，洒在工位上的落日，俯身观察的蚁群——存在于我们每一个温柔注视当下的瞬间。

　　作者简介

　　罗伯特·麦克法伦（RobertMacfarlane）

　　英国作家、学者。剑桥大学文学与环境人文学教授，英国皇家文学学会会员。

　　他以行走滋养书写，步履不停，笔耕不辍，横跨九年创作出“行走文学三部曲”《念念远山》《荒野之境》《古道》，获得萨默塞特·毛姆文学奖、爱德华·斯坦福旅行文学奖等奖项。近作《深时之旅》获得英国温赖特奖、美国国家户外图书奖，被《纽约时报》《经济学人》《华尔街日报》等近二十家机构评为年度好书。

　　麦克法伦将当代旅行写作推向新的高度，被文学杂志《格兰塔》前主编誉为“当代最好的行走文学作家”。2013年，他成为最年轻的布克奖评委会主席。

　　王如菲

　　南京大学英文系硕士、译者、出版从业者，译有《深时之旅》《荒野之境》《生活的代价》。

　　

A brief introduction to Into the Wild

Climbing the beech trees on the outskirts of the city and looking at the urban night scene, Robert McFarlan could not restrain his imagination and longing for the wilderness. Is there any wilderness left in the world? He decided to leave behind the map of roads and buildings, to go to the unknown Spaces of the map, to find the wild hidden in the deep valleys of the great valleys.

From the beaches of Wales to the salt marshes of Essex, from the Red Peaks of Scotland to the sunken roads of Dorset, he climbed, strolled and swam by day, and slept on cliffs, in ancient gorges and deep forests by night. He searches isolated islands for recluses, stumbles upon the remains of world wars on headlands, follows deer into the forest, and elegantly weaves history, memory and landscape into a literary map of the wilderness that records falcons and rocks.

As a guide, McFarlan takes us out of the confines of the city, walking and writing each chapter as a novel journey out of the human perspective - beyond the human world, there is a larger world. Finally, we follow him back to the beech tree, and the night of the city in the distance is renewed, with the spark of the wild.

Like the mementoes we pick up along the way, we will recover our awareness and imagination of the world around us, and the wilderness is present in the everyday and in the vicinity - the weeds poking out of the road, a woodland in the suburbs, a sunset over our station, an ant colony leaning over - in every moment of our tender gaze at the present.

About the author

RobertMacfarlane

British writer and scholar. Professor of Literature and Environmental Humanities, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

He nourished his writing by walking, walking and writing continuously, and created a "walking literature trilogy", "Thinking of the Far Mountains", "The Wilderness" and "The Ancient Road" across nine years, which won the Somerset Maugham Literature Award and Edward Stanford Travel Literature Award. His most recent book, Journey into Deep Time, won the Wainwright Award in the United Kingdom, the National Outdoor Book Award in the United States, and was named the best Book of the Year by nearly 20 organizations, including The New York Times, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal.

Macfarlan has taken contemporary travel writing to new heights and has been described by the former editor of the literary magazine Granta as "the best walking writer of our time". In 2013, he became the youngest Man Booker Prize jury president.

Wang Rufei

She is a translator and publisher with a master's degree in English from Nanjing University. She has translated "Journey into Deep Time", "Into the Wild" and "The Price of Life".