S1E19 - Chasing Wilderness with Cal Flyn (and Gary Snyder)

For thousands of years, people have dreamed of walking off the map — lighting out for the remote unknown, into landscapes untouched and untamed. The classic wilderness quest is as old as literature itself: you go into the wild, and you come out changed. It's woven into ancient spiritual texts, medieval myths, and European accounts of the so-called "New World."

But wilderness is an idea as slippery as it is powerful — and wilderness preservation is a complicated and often costly ideal. 

That's the territory Cal Flyn explores in her new book, The Savage Landscape: How We Made...