"Our estate was built on land claimed from fields – we were at the foot of those rolling Kilpatrick hills, but over the roof of the school you could see more green fields and woods. I felt grateful to be on the edge of all that countryside – there was a magnetic pull towards what I thought that wild was, or could be. ‘One day, I’m going to walk to those hills and woods,’ I’d think to myself."

Gordon Buchanan is one of the most recognised natural history cameramen the BBC has ever produced. Over the past thirty years, he has filmed everything from snow wolves in Ellesmere and polar bears in Svalbard to leopards in Mumbai and equine therapy in Mongolia, travelling to some of the most remote places on Earth. In the Hide is Gordon’s emotionally honest and deeply personal account of a difficult childhood in Dumbarton and on the Isle of Mull, and the refuge he discovered in the natural world that continues to ground and inspire him.

An intimate and uplifting story of strength and survival, In the Hide introduces a powerful new voice in nature writing.