Macfarlane spends a year travelling Essex’s strange and elemental landscapes of heavy industry, desolate beaches and wild woods.
He encounters massive knot flocks over the Thames, peregrine falcons at Tilbury Power Station, water voles within sniffing distance of the municipal dump, deer rutting in earshot of the M25, barn owls, badgers and bluebells in Billericay as well as a large colony of common seals.
