Wild History: Journeys Into Lost Scotland - Mass Market Paperbound
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:BirlinnISBN-13:9781780279268ISBN-10:1780279264UPC:9781780279268Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Archaeology, Social HistoryBook Topic:Great BritainSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.75Product ID:SC8AYB61EW
"An excellent book full of awe-inspiring places to discover off the beaten track; you may never look at Scotland's landscape in the same way." -- Outdoor Photography Magazine
From the presenter of BBC Radio 4's Take Four Books
You scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a forest. And then you find them. The traces of the past. Perhaps they are marked by a tiny symbol on your map, perhaps not. There are no plaques to explain their fading presence before you, nothing to account for what they once were - who made them, lived in them or abandoned them. Now they are merged with the landscape. They are being reclaimed by nature. They are wild history.
In this book acclaimed author and presenter James Crawford introduces many such places all over the country, from the ruins of prehistoric forts and ancient, arcane burial sites, to abandoned bothies and boathouses, and the derelict traces of old, faded industry.
Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month for April 2025
Shortlisted for The Great Outdoors Reader Awards
Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize
From the presenter of BBC Radio 4's Take Four Books
You scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a forest. And then you find them. The traces of the past. Perhaps they are marked by a tiny symbol on your map, perhaps not. There are no plaques to explain their fading presence before you, nothing to account for what they once were - who made them, lived in them or abandoned them. Now they are merged with the landscape. They are being reclaimed by nature. They are wild history.
In this book acclaimed author and presenter James Crawford introduces many such places all over the country, from the ruins of prehistoric forts and ancient, arcane burial sites, to abandoned bothies and boathouses, and the derelict traces of old, faded industry.
Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month for April 2025
Shortlisted for The Great Outdoors Reader Awards
Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BirlinnISBN-13:9781780279268ISBN-10:1780279264UPC:9781780279268Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Archaeology, Social HistoryBook Topic:Great BritainSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.75Product ID:SC8AYB61EW
Crawford, James: - James Crawford is RCAHMS Communications Manager, and has previously worked as a literary agent, journalist and editor.
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