＊2017年斯坦福·杜曼年度旅行书决选
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作者Nick Hunt踏上一段不可能的旅程：他要追寻四道吹拂过欧洲大陆的风……对，你没看错，他要追风。
 
他的追风之旅始于英国北部本宁山脉（Pennines）的克罗斯山（Cross Fell），他首先追踪怒吼的英国焚风（Helm）。在南欧，他追踪了从义大利第里雅斯特吹过斯洛维尼亚，最后到克罗埃西亚海岸的寒冷布拉风（Bora）。他在瑞士端的阿尔卑斯山脉追逐“会吃雪”的焚风（Foehn），那是一段令人兴奋却又充满绝望的蜿蜒旅程。最后，他在南法的朝圣之路上追逐让梵谷充满热情也受尽折磨的“疯狂的风”── 密斯托拉风（Mistral）。
 
这本书不仅带我们追风，也让我们踏进自然并认识住在这些地方的人，有气象学家、追风者、山地硬汉、怪风爱好者、水手和牧羊人。作者Nick很快就发现自己深深地被他所追逐的这些力量──雨水，暴风雪，呼啸的狂风，以及这些时间──感动着。因为，这些地方，不只有这些狂野的风，还有神话和传说，历史和民间轶事，科学和迷信，偶尔还有满屋装满泡菜，腌制肉类和自酿酒的偏远山屋。
 
《追风之旅》是一本美丽独特的游记，这本书让无形的风，有了迷人的形状。
 
本书好评
Where the Wild Winds Are is full to the brim with learning, entertainment, description, scientific fact and conjectural fiction. It is travel writing  in excelsis. (Jan Morris Literary Review)

A thrilling and gorgeous tale, packed with meteorological wonder. (Amy Liptrot, author of 'The Outrun') A quest both  quixotic and entertainingly escapist. (Financial Times - Books of the Year)

There are  poignant  moments of calm amid the tumult, insights that capture the joy of walking alone. (The Times Literary Supplement)

An  exuberant, invigorating  blast of a book. (Michael Kerr Daily Telegraph - Books of the Year)

A  wonderful  book; reading it is like being introduced to a gang of complex characters by an entertaining and erudite host. It has been  a joy  getting to know them better and in all their moods. (Tristan Gooley, author of 'The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs')

Where the Wild Winds Are  blew me away. (Seán Williams, Radio 3, Free Thinking)

An ingenious idea that [Hunt] carries off with panache and aplomb.  An extremely gifted writer . . . his writing here has agreeable echoes of Leigh Fermor's evocative prose. (New European)

A  pleasure from start to finish. (John Sandoe Books - Book of the Month)

Nick Hunt's writing is  powerful, playful, searching and often strikingly original. As he walks through the world, his journeys always reveal more than they set out to find. (Paul Kingsnorth, author of 'The Wake')
 
关于作者
Nick Hunt踏遍欧洲也写遍欧洲。许多报章杂志及出版品都能找到他的文章，像是《经济学人》（The Economist）、《卫报》（The Guardian）等。他是“黑山计划”（ Dark Mountain Project）的编辑。他的处女作Walking the Woods and the Water (Nicholas Brealey, 2014) 也有进入斯坦福·杜曼年度旅行书决选。他目前住在布里斯托。