"This book is something else ... the story of an obsession. Passionate, persuasive and personal ... it is an elegy to a fascinating world of which many of us have lost sight." Anthony Sattin, The Sunday Times
"Silt Road is that rare thing: a book that is able to marry exacting research with imaginative fluency, told in language as pliant and revealing as water." Melissa Harrison, Earthlines
"The author's passion, underpinned by his deftness of touch, makes the book an utter joy to read." John Aston, Trout and Salmon Magazine
"You will be moved and altered by what you read in this groundbreaking book." John Andrews, Caught by the River
"Sometimes fascinating, often very beautiful, occasionally shocking and sombre." Phoebe Smith, Wanderlust
"A work of extraordinary power and resonance." Melissa Harrison, Financial Times
"Rangeley-Wilson's historical excursions are fascinating ... The moral is that blandness is manufactured. The real world beneath is layered with history and pulsates with wonders." Sinclair McKay, The Daily Telegraph
"A thousand-year-old detective story of rare beauty and brilliant insight, as though John McPhee had channelled Gilbert White." James Babb
"This a great swirl of a book – luminously well written and as intriguing as a cabinet of curiosities." David Profumo
"A rich dowsing of a lost river and its stories; a passionate pursuit of landscape ghosts." Robert Macfarlane
"The language in Silt Road is gorgeous. Throughout the book there are so many fine rhythms – truly musical, poetic beats and phrasing." Henry Hughes, Professor of Literature, Oregon University
"Local history raised by water power to the status of allegorical memoir ... in searching for the Wye, the author is also looking for something that is 'far more deeply interfused'." John Greening, Country Life
