I've loved all the books in this series, and this one didn't disappoint. The illustrations are gorgeous and the text is absorbing.

Beautifully illustrated and an interesting exploration of some of the world's wild places. I think the author does a good job showcasing the value of these places and highlighting their significance, and this is a beautiful addition to the travel series. It's a difficult balance to share appreciation for fragile places with others while not encouraging a flood of overtourism that would threaten the location's existence/wildness.

I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. I mostly skimmed this and read parts and pieces, but I can't wait to get my hands on a copy so that I can read it cover-to-cover. Love the great illustrations and the personal stories about each place.

What a delight this has been. A guide to some of the world's wildest places with beautiful illustrations and their histories, need and cause of existence. Added all of these to never ending bucket list.

Thanks NetGalley and White Lion Publishing for an ARC and introducing me to the wonders of nature.

Perfect to explore from the safety of your home or to add to your travel bucket list.
If you are fascinated by the natural world this is am ideal read.
The beautiful wide locations are portrayed in artistic illustration to give the reader a larger view.

Highly recommend. Sarah Baxter’a Wild Places will inspire your travel bucket list. Some of the wild places described will be familiar to most readers. Some will be new. All are beautifully written and illustrated. All sparked my imagination. I loved this book.

Thank you to Net Galley and White Lion Publishing for the ARC.

Sixth in the series Inspired Traveller's Guides.
Travel to places you can only dream of visiting in their wild awe-inspiring natural beauty. The verbal descriptions are informative and viscerally attractive to adventurers and armchair travelers alike. These are decidedly the roads less traveled. Wonder full!
The illustrations by Amy Grimes are simple, colorful, and forthright. Every public library needs a copy!
I requested and received a free temporary e-book on Adobe Digital Editions from Quarto Publishing Group – White Lion/White Lion Publishing via NetGalley. Thank you!

This book is a beautiful list of travel inspiration world wide with some of the most gorgeous nature illustrations you've ever seen. This is as much a travel list as it is an art book. I would love to gift this to my favorite globetrotter in my life and keep a copy for myself out on display.

“A wild place is somewhere that speaks to us on a different level. A landscape that seeps into our deepest recesses; provokes wonder, awe, or fear.” Sarah Baxter, author of the Inspired Traveller’s Guide series, brings us a new book to the series, Wild Places. Baxter takes us on a trip around the world to places that are not only untouched by man but also places that have been disturbed throughout history and, seeing the error of our ways, humans are trying to correct in hopes of making something even better than before. Accompanied with each place Baxter discusses are gorgeous illustrations by Amy Grimes that are truly breathtaking. From England to Namibia, Portugal to Australia, North Carolina to Guyana, Baxter takes us on a trip around the world to breathtaking wild places that will make your travel bucket list grow a mile long.

How I adore this book and I have to admit, I got a little teary eyed reading it!

I'm an intrepid traveler who loves to get off the grid and discover remote corners of the world. I always travel with a journal, a tiny tin of watercolors and a handful of brushes and pens.

After being grounded for a couple of years, I'm so eager to get back out and explore. I've been to a number of the destinations in this book and I was so profoundly moved by both the written descriptions and the incredible illustrations, it was almost as if I was visiting each place, once again, in person.

I was also thrilled to learn this book was part of a series which somehow, I never knew about.

I've already ordered print copies of some of the books in the series to add to my personal library.

love. love. love.

A little surprisingly, yet also a little reassuringly, this book starts looking at the world's lesser-tamed places by going to that completely remote and uninhabited island country called England. Yes, I know. And then Wales and Scotland follow – not them in total, you understand, just a tiny, rarefied corner of each. But if an author who knows her stuff to the extent I click 'download' to check out all her volumes, even if they have such a recurringly familiar style, thinks wilderness and the best isolation nature can bring starts in the Lake District, who am I to quibble?

There was a Punch magazine cartoon decades ago, featuring two uncouth slobs looking over a sylvan landscape in a rainbow of gorgeous colours. The text with it was one of them saying to the other something along the lines of "God, what a dump!". Us readers of this will not be those slobs, and will admire mountainous regions of China hiding giant pandas in their grasp, idyllic riverways that are home to copious endemic critters – or rare prehistoric rock engravings. These are the Raja Ampats of the world, not the armpits. And it's all well-judged; the bits of Australia that could be said to qualify are as big as India; the little visit to the Himalayas goes to a nicely-chosen corner.

As such then the case can definitely be made that this is pictorial in the wrong way – however artistic and however true-to-life the artworks may be they might always have been photos, and they do take up a lot of space here. But that's expected now from this range of books, which are still really quite wonderful for the armchair traveller. That said, the smallest room might be the better place to absorb these bitty little patches of perfection, in this little volume of pleasures. Finally, if you remain too worried about the state of the world's nature to contemplate places we've yet to ruin, bear in mind a lot of these entries have the history and the lore of humanity at said sites – many have managed to get along fine in their own sweet and wild way.

This book is more than just fantastic stories of special locations around the world. It is a bucket list of the most beautiful, unspoilt spots worthy of visiting if your desire is to get back to nature and experience the soul-soothing balm such places possess. Sarah Baxter's descriptions of each location makes the reader feel as if he/she is there with her. She has such a gift for teasing out the smallest detail and turning it into magic. A great little book, beautifully illustrated, as well, and worth your time if you want ideas on places to go or just appreciate the majesty from the comfort of your own home.

This is a lovely book for any nature and/or book lover, just a gorgeous artifact to own and handle and display. As well as being so physically attractive it is also a fantastic read - Sarah Baxter's writing is lively and quirky and full of joy, passion and enthusiasm for her subject. The vibrant language is matched perfectly with the bold and beautiful artwork of Amy Grimes - the illustrations are simply stunning, so colourful, so full of charming detail, just a delight. Together these two talented people bring the wild places they describe to life in your mind's eye and it's a lovely experience.
A lovely book to own or to give as a gift, to read in one go or dip into now and then. Recommended.

A perfect book for an armchair explorer: gorgeous illustrations and interesting text.
I loved it and it made me travel to places.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

I received a copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a nice book!

It's not quite what I expected. There are some beautiful drawings and information about some wild places - or places that are rather desolate. There's some interesting information about each location and where it is. It's fairly high level, but nice to look at.

Overall a nice book to flip through.

Another beautifully illustrated book by Sarah Baxter. This time around, she examines "Wild Places", reaching all around the globe on each continent. These collection of "Places" would make an excellent to any travel-lovers home library. Great for the armchair traveler or the traveler who is trying to decide - Where Next?

Beautifully illustrated and written guide to the world's wildest places - some well-known, some that were new to me. If you want a book to whet the appetite, help with bucket list planning this is the ideal book to dip into.

With thanks to NetGalley and White Lion Publishing for an ARC.

Sarah Baxter’s Wild Places is a beautiful little book with vivid illustrations by Amy Grimes. In Wild Places, Sarah describes around 25 locations that can aptly be described as wild. Some of them you’ve probably heard of like the Galapagos Islands, while others like Raja Ampat you may not have.

Each location has a brief but poetically described and informative write up, telling about any ancient mythology, the original inhabitants, the landscape, and the types of wildlife that could be found there. I learned a lot. In fact, I also Googled a lot while I was reading to see and learn more. It’s just that kind of book.

The places that struck my fancy were Bhutan because I know next to nothing about it and loved the fact that the people of Bhutan are nature-oriented and spiritual. I have a very large place in my heart for people who love nature and wish to preserve it as much as I do. Also, I never knew that the Green Belt in Germany existed nor that it came about after the fall of the Wall and was once the barrier between the East and West but is now being taken over by native species. It would probably suffice to say that there were not too many places that didn’t strike my fancy.

Amy Grimes illustrations are bold and beautiful, worthy of framing, and add an extra layer of magic to an already magical book.

The only thing I wished for were maps for each location. While Sarah does tell where the areas are, I wished I could see on a map where they were—thus, I did Google the locations for many of these places.

This book is for anyone who loves nature and places that, despite “progress,” are still wild.

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I’ve loved all of Sarah Baxter’s books about places I’ve never been. Books a beautiful illustrations inspire me to travel. I highly suggest purchasing this new book!

Attention arm chair travelers and adventurers: I am pretty sure that you might like to give this beautiful book a look. Both the illustrations and the text are enticing. I adored the paintings that encouraged me to dream.

Some of the many destinations include Ennerdale, England; st. Kilda, Scotland; Carmargue, France; Wadden Sea, The Netherlands; Coa Valley, Portugal; Er Chigaga, Morocco; Wilpena Pound, Australia and many others. Each has interest for the reader.

The book begins with an introduction that acknowledges people’s need for the breadth, scale and drama of the wild. For one thing, the wilds offer perspective and a source of wonder. The author also notes that each of the places selected has a human story to tell. Dive in and learn more about them.

Many thanks to Quarto publishing and NetGalley for this title that I highly recommend. All opinions are my own.