Led by the Land

An updated and expanded edition of Kim Wilkie's classic work, widely acclaimed as a major contribution to the literature on landscape, sustainability, regeneration and design.

'A revelatory story of how landscapes in human hands can become inhabited works of art, written by one of the most gifted of today's landscape architects' — Sir David Attenborough

'If you want to make a landmark, do not grow gentians. Get Wilkie to shape the myths of your dreams.' — Robin Lane Fox, Financial Times

Full of enticing photography and thoughtful narrative, this is a powerful book that brings to life man's relationship with the land and his ability to thoughtfully enhance it. It is as informative as it is stimulating.

Kim Wilkie has a deep love and understanding of the human landscape: the symbiosis between people and nature that has created some of the most beautiful and ecologically rich places on our planet. Wilkie's work reconnects us to the idea that we are not admiring observers, but an essential part of the landscape we love.

In addition to the many private and public landscape designs described in the first edition of Led by the Land, this revised edition includes new projects, among them Kim Wilkie's thought-provoking designs for the grounds of London's Natural History Museum, tracing 'the passage from deep time to the present [and] to the future... exploring where we go next and how we can continue to survive in the narrow bands of atmosphere and topsoil that make life possible in the thin biosphere of the planet'.