“This is a remarkable book. It is already part of the rich layer of writing about the Lake District and it deserves its place.” Melvyn Bragg

John Wyatt first encountered the Lake District during a boyhood trip to Windermere. He was overwhelmed by the freedom of the landscape and the closeness to nature he felt. It was as if he belonged here, amongst the fells, the crags and the endless horizon. The call to the wild stayed with him, becoming so powerful that one day he did what many only dream of: he left a steady job and his town life to become a forestry worker in a Lakeland wood at Cartmel Fell. Like Thoreau, John Wyatt embraced the simplicity of living alone in a woodland hut, and the extraordinary companionship of Buck, a young roe deer discovered in the woods.