Contemporary landscape writing contains some of the most compelling literary geographies of the last three decades: non-fiction prose pieces that are principally concerned with the links between self and place, nature and culture. These connections are often explored through the medium of travel writing, but they can also be examined through studies of personal history, political activism, or other forms of life writing. Landscape writers include: Roy Applegate, Paul Austin, Richard Baxter, William Bell, Charles Bowden, Robert Bly, Edward Dolnick, Stephen Dowrick, James Egan, John Elwert, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Gachowski, George Gilbert, Alan Golding, Richard Grossman, John Heath, Susan Howatch, David Hughes, Robert Hughes, Rebecca Irwin, Peter Jenkins, Andrew Keating, Kenneth Lee, Eva Louizou, Philip Marsden, Paul McCarty, Patricia McNamee, Robert Mantle, Giles Mace, Colin McDowell, Andrew Martin, Jay Mathews, Mary Midgley, Simon Neeff, Patrick Ness, Jeff O'Neil, Arthur Olliver, Bill Otten, Paul Page, Richard Parker, Barbara Parker, Geoff Parker, Helen Phillips, Iain Robertson, Andy Smith, Ian Thomson, Liz Topping, and Alice Walker.