Why read Deep Country?

Book cover of Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills

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Deep Country is Neil Ansell's account of five years spent alone in a hillside cottage in Wales.

'I lived alone in this cottage for five years, summer and winter, with no transport, no phone. This is the story of those five years, where I lived and how I lived. It…

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1 author picked Deep Country as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Sarah Jane Butler

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Neil Ansell is such an honest writer. I came to this book because I loved his other writing about nature and followed him back through time to the five years he spent living alone up a Welsh mountain, seeing no one for weeks on end, exploring and working in the woods and hills around him.

It’s a rich and deep description of place, but more than that, it’s a gradual unfurling of Ansell’s sense of self. In a later book, he writes of that time of prolonged solitude, ‘You slough off the skin of self, all self-awareness, and are left…

From Sarah's list on The best books about solitude by one who fears and yearns for it.