William Atkins

William Atkins is the author of The Moor (Faber), a book about English moorland, which was described in the Observer as a ‘classic’ and as a ‘remarkable book’ by John Carey in the Sunday Times.

He is working on a travel book and cultural history about the world’s deserts, to be published internationally in 2018. He is a 2016 Eccles British Library Writer in Residence.

Saturday 11^th June

12:00 Extremes of exploration – flight, mountains, jungle, desert

William Atkins, James Macdonald Lockhart and Andrea Wulf in conversation with Andrew Simms

What drives us to extremes? How do humans and animals co-exist in myriad landscapes? How does exploration in the 21^st century compare with the impulses that moved explorers such as Alexander von Humboldt?

Price: £10