Nick Hunt has walked and written about most of Europe. He recreated the great walk of Patrick Leigh Fermor, and wrote the excellent Walking The Woods and The Water (2014). Now he sets off to walk in and experience 4 very different and unlikely European environments. He begins in Scotland's Arctic, the Cairngorms; then Poland's jungle, the last European remnant of primeval forest on the Poland Belarus border; then Spain's desert, in fact Europe's only true desert, in the south of Almeria; and then finally Hungary's steppe, the Great Plain Hortobagy. He writes evocatively of the history of each place, and the elemental nature of these unlikely landscapes, what they feel like and what they represent. An excellent travel book.