Windswept Life Nature And Deep Time In The Scottish Highlands

Binding: Paperback
Description: Windswept is a wonderful work prose painted in bold bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas Robert Macfarlane An instant classic of British nature - writing Sunday Telegraph a few years ago Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small - holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland. It is a land ruled by great elemental forces light wind and water that hold sway over how land forms where the sea sits and what grows. Windswept explores what it means to live in this rugged awe - inspiring place of unquenchable spirit and wild weather. Walk with Annie as she lays quartz stones in the river to reflect the moonlight and attract salmon as she watches otters play tag across the beach as she is awoken by the feral bellowing of stags. Travel back in time to the epic story of how Scotland's valleys were carved by glaciers rivers scythed paths through mountains how the earliest people found a way of life in the Highlands and how she then found a home there millennia later. With stunning imagery and lyrical prose Windswept evokes a place where nature reigns supreme and humans must learn to adapt. It is her paean to a beloved place one richer with colour sound and life than perhaps anywhere else in the UK.
Title: Windswept Life Nature And Deep Time In The Scottish Highlands
Author(s): Worsley Annie
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers
Barcode: 9780008278403
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 10/15/2024
Category: The Countryside, Country Life