A Last Wild Place is Tomkies' bestseller - the book for which he will be remembered more than for any of the other eight he has written about the remote Highland lochside cottage and its surrounding hills where he has lived alone for twenty years without electricity, gas, telephone or postal service, studying the wildlife. Here the one-time Hollywood journalist gives a remarkable picture of the whole cycle of nature through the seasons in a harsh environment of unrivalled beauty. The Duke of Edinburgh wrote in the Good Book Guide: 'The North West of Scotland is indeed a wild place, but to the observant eye of the author it is full of wonderful life. This book does more than describe a piece of wild country and its population of wild animals: it gives a vivid picture of someone wholly absorbed by his subject.'
- ISBN10 0224043552
- ISBN13 9780224043557
- Publish Date 4 July 1996 (first published 19 July 1984)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 April 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 256
- Language English