Lone Wolf

<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION</b><Br><b>WINNER OF THE BANFF MOUNTAIN LITERATURE AWARD</b></p><p><b>BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week</b><Br><b>A<i> Financial Times</i> Book of the Year 2025</b><Br><b>A <i>Times </i>and <i>Telegraph </i>Best Book of the Summer 2026</b></p><p>‘AN EXCEPTIONAL BOOK.’ <b>Robert Macfarlane, author of <i>Underland</i></b><Br>‘A BOLD, BEAUTIFUL, CONFRONTING JOURNEY.’ <b>Isabella Tree, author of <i>Wilding</i></b><Br>‘LOVELY ... FULL OF INCIDENT, COLOUR AND NUGGETY FACTS.’ <b>Robbie Millen, <i>The Times</i></b></p><p><b>From the winner of the <i>Sunday Times</i> 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.</b></p><p>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.</p><p>In <i>Lone Wolf</i>, 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.</p><p>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.</p>