RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewFlyn’s absorbing book documents a pair of quests ... She is excellent company: funny, soulful and casually brilliant, weaving together philosophy, literature, post-colonial critique ... Flyn’s prose, fluent and occasionally purple, will feel familiar to readers of prestige nature writing ... Ultimately, Flyn is a more compelling thinker than reporter. Things get interesting when she wades into theoretical thickets. In one deft passage, she ponders the notion that wilderness \'comes not from the absence of humans, but from the presence of that which is incompatible with them.\'
