Wellbeing and self-transformation in natural landscapes

While natural landscapes have long been represented and portrayed as transformative, the link to mental wellbeing is an area that researchers are still aiming to comprehend.

Accompanying five groups of people to rural Scotland, Rebecca Crowther considers individual, external and group motivations for journeying from urban environments, examining in what ways these excursions are personally and socially transformative.

Far more than traversing mere physical boundaries, this book illustrates the new challenges, experiences, territories and cultures provided by these excursions, firmly anchored in the Scottish countryside.

In doing so, Crowther questions the extent to which people's own narratives link to the perception that the outdoors are positively transformative - and what indeed does have the power to influence transformation.