Wyld of the Woodling: A Literary Pilgrimage Through Wildness, Rewilding and East Kent

William Rowlandson's Wyld of the Woodling follows a three-day traversal of East Kent along the route associated with Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker, combining pilgrimage, literary ramble and landscape writing. Day One moves from city to coast through the downs and towns, using the journey to explore wildness, wilderness, wilding and rewilding, the tension between civilisation and the wild, land disputes, woodland lore, tree consciousness, the ethics of mulch and contradictory ideas about humanity's place in the world. The 172-page paperback presents East Kent as a landscape layered with myth, history and an unsettlingly familiar future. Rowlandson is described as a Humanities scholar, walker and writer whose method is grounded in stories, language and close attention to place and community.