Carys Davies' top 10 wilderness books

From Eric Newby's bliss in the Hindu Kush to Paul Bowles's Saharan horrors, the novelist shares her favourite visions of unfathomable territorySometime towards the end of 2016, I heard on my kitchen radio that astronomers had just discovered there are two trillion galaxies in the universe - 10 times more than previously thought. I switched off the radio and sat down, practically dizzy - overwhelmed by the unfathomable vastness of it all. A single galaxy, remember, like ours, consists of gravity, planets, and millions or billions of stars. So: another 1,999,999,999,999 of those. Continue reading...