Wild Woman

'Somewhere inside of me is some kind of wild soul.'

Conservation and environmental biology have traditionally been male-dominated subjects, but many remarkable women also choose to live and work in wild and challenging landscapes.

In Wild Woman, Philippa Forrester shares stories of female conservation heroes and other extraordinary wild women working in nature. She explores the qualities that help women survive and thrive in the most demanding environments, from the sixteenth-century botanist who was the first woman to circumnavigate the globe to modern-day women responding to bear attacks in Yellowstone, working to rewild reserves in South Africa, photographing Caribou in the Arctic and more.

Philippa also reflects on her own experience of wilderness around the world and asks: what does it take for a woman to live or work in the wild?