Wildly Different: Sarah Lonsdale in conversation with Helen Mort

For millennia the ‘wild’ was a place heroic men went on epic quests. Women were prevented from joining them, either through physical control or powerful myths about what would happen if they ventured into the wild.

So how did women claim their place in the remote and lovely parts of our planet? In Wildly Different, historian Sarah Lonsdale traces the lives of five women who fought for the right to work in, enjoy and help to save the earth’s wild places.

They range from Ethel Haythornthwaite, who helped make the Peak District Britain’s first National Park, to Wangari Maathai, who started a movement to plant millions of trees across sub-Saharan Africa. This book shows how women can be 'wildly different'.

Sarah will be in conversation with Helen Mort.