Miriam Lancewood

Guest writer

Miriam Lancewood is the author of the best-selling memoir Woman in the Wilderness. With her companion Peter, a New Zealander 30 years her senior who she met in India, she decided to live – in the most primitive manner - in the wilderness of the Southern Alps. Miriam was born in 1983 in Holland.

A beech forest in Larvik, Norway, just after sunrise (Photo: Baac3nes via Getty)

A letter from the actually not-so-bad future

A writer imagines what life – and the planet – is like many decades down the track.

By Miriam Lancewood | 29th October, 2020

‘Grab his horns and cut his throat’

‘Grab his horns and cut his throat’

An extract from the extraordinary Woman in the Wilderness, a memoir by Miriam Lancewood about her decision to leave civilisation to live - and hunt - in the New Zealand bush.

By Miriam Lancewood | 3rd July, 2017