In 2011, a young wolf named Slavc set out from Slovenia. Tracked by GPS, he travelled a thousand miles to the Italian Alps where no wolves had lived for a century. North of Verona, he crossed paths with a female wolf on a walkabout of her own. A decade later, there are more than a hundred wolves back in the area, the result of their remarkable meeting.
In the Sherborne Travel Writing Festival’s opening event, Adam Weymouth - winner of the 2018 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award - retraces Slavc's path, examining the changes facing these wild mountains where rewilding meets the urge to preserve culture and climate change radically impacts traditional lives. The result is a multifaceted account of Europe's hinterlands at a moment of political and environmental change.
