The cast list is long and international and the method shifting, subtle and demanding' Adam Nicolson, GuardianFor the Romantics, the countryside was a place of radical change.

But those real life experiences have been overlaid by two centuries of cliche.

To rediscover - and learn from - their radicalism we need to find a fresh approach. In this extraordinary hybrid of scholarship, biography, cultural history, travelogue and lifewriting, acclaimed poet and Romantic biographer Fiona Sampson does just that.

As she walks the British countryside, from the Isle of Wight to Kintyre, her evocative and thought-provoking book helps us see clearly what's hiding in plain sight.