Hardy’s Landscape Revisited is a twenty-first century look at Thomas Hardy’s Wessex, consisting of a series of described walks through the novelist’s literary landscapes. Based upon the texts of The Return of the Native, Far From the Madding Crowd, Under the Greenwood Tree, The Woodlanders, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, as well as incorporating excerpts from Hardy’s poems, Tony Fincham’s book allows the reader to appreciate the real world which formed the fictional stages.The author argues that Hardy’s landscapes, at once specific and general; based on real places and yet purposefully distanced and disguised, are an outward extension of a very narrow territory encompassing locations which, in “reality”, lay very close to the thatched cottage on Egdon Heath where Hardy was born.