LAST WOLF: HIDDEN SPRINGS OF ENGLISHNESS

England’s national identity is built on a lucky set of natural ingredients: the island setting that made it maritime; the rain that fed the grass that nourished the sheep that provided the wool, and the wheat fields that provided its cakes and ale. Then came the seams of iron and coal that made it an industrial giant. Travelling the country, Winder looks for England’s roots not in royal pageantry or politics, values or ideas, but in landscape and history.