David Whyte's 7th volume of poetry takes its readers through the difficulties, triumphs, adventures, losses, hopes and revelations that have shaped one particular human life. Whether writing of his Yorkshire childhood or his mother's Ireland, trekking in the Himalayas, youthful partings in the mountains of South America, or fireside talks on a Welsh farm with a friend with a passion for Blake, the poems have their feet planted firmly in the natural world, simultaneously inviting us to join him on the path and admonishing us to get down on our hands and knees in the thicket and find our own way.