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Brought to you by Penguin.

From the Sunday Times best-selling Author of The Salt Path and The Wild Silence.

The latest memoir from global bestselling author Raynor Winn.

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live...

Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth's health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once before. But will he—can he?—set out with her on another healing walk?

The Cape Wrath Trail is over two hundred miles of gruelling terrain through Scotland's remotest mountains and lochs. But the lure of the wilderness and the beguiling beauty of the awaiting glens draw them northwards. Being one with nature saved them in their darkest hour and their hope is that it can work its magic again.

As they set out on their incredible thousand-mile journey back to the familiar shores of the South-west Coast Path, Raynor and Moth map the landscape of an island nation facing an uncertain path ahead.

In Landlines, she records in luminous prose the strangers and friends, wilderness and wildlife they encounter on the way—it's a journey that begins in fear but can only end in hope.

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Ecosystems & Habitats

Hiking

Nature & Ecology

Outdoors & Nature

Personal Development

Personal Success

Science

Spirituality

Western Europe

Heartfelt

Ecosystems & Habitats Hiking Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Personal Development Personal Success Science Spirituality Western Europe Heartfelt

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While most linger, trying to get back what’s been lost, that wasn’t an option for Raynor & Moth. Immediately, they started moving forward. They have kept moving forwards, through all the uncertainties raised by Moth’s health and what would best sustain him. They did, from Scotland, walk 500 miles and 500 more, fuelled by tea, chips & an intuition that doing what the human body was designed to, in the complex natural environment it was adapted to do it in, they would be living a healthier way. Doing what made sense in any given day, they attended closely to the world around them and to the evidence of their own experiences. There seemed something intrinsically meaningful about every step walked, every observation, every consequence and challenge. An inspiring story of courage driven & sustained by an enviable love, revealing how out of touch most of us have become with our essential nature and intuitive wisdom. Not only are we reminded of the need to exist in greater harmony with our natural world but we are faced with the fact we are damaging the very environment that is our life support and that is rich with intrinsic meaning we code into our nervous system with every step. How do you sustain a healthy nervous system, when the feedback we get it is often arbitrary, inconsistent and nonsensical, if divorced from those complex, rich, meaningful chains of perception- action - and the feedback of immediate, intelligible consequence. We’re too drawn to focus on the arbitrary - to simplify experiences into a treadmill of days / miles / times ticked off. I felt humbled by the limitations of our perceived safety nets, in areas like medical care for chronic disease and uncomfortable at our willingness to hand over so much trust to those, while avoiding committing to the type of adventure Raynor and Moth have embarked upon. Though I wonder if a diet of mostly whole plant foods might have been even more powerful? If only we all held enough love to drive us forward and if only we trusted in the importance of being more in tune with the natural world, I wonder where that might take us. I admire their story and wish them many more years of the best possible health and happiness.